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This chapter provides an introduction and background to evolving understandings of smart cities and regions, through an interdisciplinary review of the research literature, enabling multiple perspectives. Literature reviewed focuses on emerging technologies associated with smart cities, urban theory for making sense of the smart city phenomenon, people and smart cities, and the highly disruptive and contested nature of emerging smart city developments and initiatives. Key definitions, frameworks, and ways of seeing through smart cities are provided, along with associated challenges and opportunities. This review enables formulation of a conceptual framework for seeing through smart cities, identifying a series of dimension—sensing, awareness, learning, openness, innovation, and disruption—from which a series of propositions are developed to guide explorations in the chapters that follow in this book. The methodology underlying the research design for this book is introduced and consists of an exploratory case study approach involving survey and in-depth interviews, enabling the collection of quantitative and qualitative data.
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McKenna, H.P. (2021). Perspectives on Smart Cities. In: Seeing Smart Cities Through a Multi-Dimensional Lens. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70821-4_1
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