Almost a century since the idea of creating more humane — more human-centric — cities was brought to the fore, how far has mankind progressed towards creating a true 'city with a heart'? How far off are we, and what can we do to close the gap?

The first generation of smart cities showed the limits of top-down planning, in which cities contracted out design and implementation to IT providers. As residents resented paying high taxes for 'smart' urban features that they did not want or use, it became plain that smart cities were not sustainable, and needed to be re-thought. 'Smart City 2.0' starts the design process with understanding the needs of human residents. Little has yet been written about smart cities' second wind.

This book offers leading-edge, international perspectives on Smart City 2.0. It offers an overview of the sustainable smart city concept, presents leading experts' latest thinking on strategies for a new generation of smart cities, and showcases eight implementation case studies from seven countries. All chapters are contributed by prominent, leading thinkers and practitioners from a dozen countries, representing both the developed and the developing worlds.

Contents:

• Overviews:
  • Policies and Rules of Engagement in Traditional and Smart Cities (Kelechi A Kalu)
  • The Conceptual Framework and Key Strategies of Smart City Planning for Sustainable Urban Development (Seo-Jeong Lee, Eung-Hyun Lee, Deog-Seong Oh)
• Strategies of Smart City Innovation:
  • How to Prepare for the Wicked Problems of the Postnormal Era: Introducing an Evaluation Model for Vucability Improvement (Ilkka Kakko)
  • Understanding GARLICs: An Innopreneurship Platform for Smart Cities (Arcot Desai Narasimhalu)
  • Human-centric Smart City Development Strategy in Taiwan (Chien-Yuan Lin)
  • Did Users Co-create Innovation in Smart City Initiatives? A Case in Japan (Jun Yamashita)
  • Science and Technology Park Development in the Context of Smart Cities (Raimund Bröchler, Mathias Seifert)
  • Korean Technoparks: An Evolving Integrated Business Platform (Jaehoon Rhee)
  • Impacts of the First to Second Generation of Smart City Initiatives in Japan (Jun Yamashita)
  • The Bright and Dark Sides of Open Innovation in Public Organizations: Evidence from Smart City Projects (Stefano Bresciani, Alberto Ferraris, Gabriele Santoro)
  • Why Do Regional Innovation Systems Not Have Comprehensive Information Support? (Fred Young Phillips, Benjamin Matheson, Urusha Thapa, Yun Jeong Choi, J Byun)
• Best Practices:
  • Smart City Strategy for Building an Innovation Platform: The Daedeok Innopolis (Sung-Kwang Yang)
  • Smart City Energy Inclusion, Towards Becoming a Better Place to Live (Sang-Ryong Cha)
  • Applications of a Smart City for Sustainable Urban Regeneration (Sunghee Lee, Jongkon Kim, Youngchul Kim)
  • The Smart City in Developing Countries: Experiences from Brazil (Daniel Esashika, Gilmar Masiero, Yohann Mauger)
  • Virtual Reality for Disaster Management and Recovery (Sheridan Tatsuno)
  • Smart Sustainable Cities and Entrepreneurship: A Proposal for a Non-aggregative Approach (Enrico Ivaldi, Andrea Ciacci)

Readership: City planners and city officials, students and researchers in the fields of urban planning and information technology, Information infrastructure consultants and providers and international banks and aid agencies.

Key Features:

• This book offers leading-edge, international perspectives on Smart City 2.0
• The tension between efficiency-driven smart cities and creative, inventive technopoleis (which by the nature of innovation must be inefficient) have not been explored before the present book
• Chapters are contributed by prominent, leading thinkers and practitioners from a dozen countries, representing both the developed and the developing worlds