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I have just completed a series of posts about the smart city reviewing the most significant elements: the conceptual confusion between its energy and environmental management approach and issues related to digitalapps and data, the role big companies are playing to market their urban technological solutions, new urban developments that are self-proclaimed smart city, the ability of these strategies to promote local technological systems and, finally, their social and political implications.

Smart City. Tecnologías emergentes para el funcionamiento urbano

As smart cities are gaining great attention lately, I have compiled different sources of information I have used lately and here you can find a list of links of resources you may find interesting. Of course, it is impossible to have a fully comprehensive catalogue, so other resources could be included. Feel free to suggest others.

General approach

Some general approaches and views on the issue, mainly from non-specialist media on urban issues, presenting the relationship of global urbanization and the need for new solutions to urban management challenges. This includes special reports from well-known global newspapers as well as other contributions from experts on urban issues.

• A special report on smart systems: Living on a platform | The Economist
• Cluster | City - Design - Innovation » Connecting cities: an interview with Sascha Haselmayer
• urban difference - engagingcities: The future of Connected and...
• Open Cities, Smarter Cities
• Connected Urban Development » Blog Archive » Layering the city - the digital revolution of smart+connected communities
• The new frontier of urban growth: High-tech partnership - The Globe and Mail
• Power and politics in smart cities | Guardian Sustainable Business | guardian.co.uk
• Intelligent cities and sustainability: Accenture
• Smart Cities: Getting Greener, and Making Money Doing It | Fast Company
• Intelligent Cities vs. Smart Growth - URENIO Watch
• Intelligent Cities - TIME
• Smarter Cities | guardian.co.uk
• Intelligent Cities - National Building Museum
• Urban Omnibus » Intelligent Cities
• Living on a platform
• Getting cities on track | Smarter Cities | guardian.co.uk
• Getting smart cities connected | Smarter Cities | guardian.co.uk
• Will 'intelligent cities' put an end to suburban sprawl? - USATODAY.com
• Making cities smarter with technology - 22 Feb 2011 - Computing Analysis
• Citiwire.net » High Tech for Cities: Neat Apps, Smart Strategies

Conceptualization

This list covers more reflective essays exploring conceptual aspects of the different elements linked to smart cities. Most of them are a good way to understand in more detail some aspects and include more links to explore about adjacent topics.

• [pop-up] urbain » Présentation - Les imaginaires de la ville hybride (SciencesPo Rennes)
• Video: A Web of Things for Smarter Cities - URENIO Watch
• A Planet of Civic Laboratories by Jody Radzik on Prezi
• Cyborg City: New York's central nervous system is growing; here's what it can do | Capital New York
• cityofsound: The street as platform
• A Bold New Model for Sustainable Cities - Robert G. Eccles and Amy C. Edmondson - HBS Faculty - Harvard Business Review
• Beyond the "smart city," part II: A definition | Urbanscale
• Senseable City Lab | Forum on Future Cities
• Digital, Intelligent, Smart Cities: Ten years books - URENIO Watch
• Hybrid Space - the internet is leaving home
• polis: a blog about cities: Urbanism in the Information Age 3.0: The Digital/Physical Interface
• The Future of Cities, Information, and Inclusion | Institute For The Future

Critical views

The series about smart cities I wrote these weeks tried to identify some challenges and you can find here some experts on urban issues positioning and exploring critically what smart cities may involve.

• Smart cities, sensors and their potential side effects | ZDNet
• How Smart Are Smart Cities Getting?
• Finding a Smarter Approach to "Smart Cities" | TheCityFix.com
• How Smart Are Smart Cities Getting? | Reuters
• Is Smart Cities The Next Big Market Worth Pursuing?
• Are 'smart cities' not as smart as they think they are? | Grist
• Is there a downside to "intelligent cities" or "smart cities"? | Kaid Benfield's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC
• Can you have a private city? The political implications of 'smart city' technology
• Beyond the "smart city" | Urbanscale
• "Intelligent City Model" Complements Smart Growth - Doesn't Replace It! | Planetizen
• What Matters: Talking back to your intelligent city
• 'Smart Growth' Replaced by 'Intelligent Cities' | Planetizen
• Urban Lab Global Cities (ULGC): Can cities be ecologically smart?
• The Battle for Control of Smart Cities | Fast Company
• Next American City » Buzz » Let's Be Smart about Intelligent Cities
• 11 traits of a smart city: how's LEX doing? | Bluegrass reVISIONS
• Mediated Cityscapes 01: Four Statements About Urban Computing /by @serial_consign | CreativeApplications.Net
• Worldchanging: Bright Green: Walkshed Technologies and the Smart City

Examples of urban developments and initiatives

An incomplete list of urban projects and cases that are using technological design applied to urban development and/or present themselves or are rated as smart city. This list is growing everyday as smart city concept is gaining great attention; I have just included examples that have become "classic", generated buzz or, in my case, are located in Spain.

• Helsinki Smart City showcase - URENIO Watch
• Portugal Plans the First "City with a Brain" - - GOOD
• Living Plan IT
• Songdo
• City design: Blue-sky bonanza | Smarter Cities | guardian.co.uk
• Songdo, South Korea. Near Seoul, new city world model sensor-activated, computer-driven management of futuristic mini-metropolis. Cisco. | Citiscope
• 21st century India: welcome to the smartest city on the planet | World news | The Observer
• Cluster | City - Design - Innovation » Taipei seeks to make cities smarter with a new model of urban development and a global call for solutions
• SmartSantander
• Japan creating 'smart city' of the future
• http://www.smartcitymalaga.es/
• Top Seven Intelligent Communities of 2011 - URENIO Watch
• Malta to become first smart grid island
• Smart Grid in The Stockholm Royal Seaport will integrate the entire electricity supply system - from refrigerator to harbour
• IBM, Shenyang and Northeastern University Set to Create Eco-City | IBM News Updates | IBM Systems Magazine
• The 10 Smartest Cities on the Planet [Slideshow] | Slideshows
• Boulder: Smart Grid City | Sustainable Cities
• Sisak Smart Energy City: Home
• Five routes to the future | Smarter Cities | guardian.co.uk
• How Smart Are Smart Cities Getting? | CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com
• Cisco's Big Bet on New Songdo: Creating Cities From Scratch | Fast Company

Technology transfer

The concept of smart city is facilitating the creation of centers dedicated to transfer of knowledge from industry to cities and urban services, expected to serving as catalysts for generating new solutions and the introduction of new applications while boosting local industrial systems.

• Mayor Bloomberg Launches NYC Urban Technology Innovation Center
• CISCO to create an urban innovation center in Barcelona | Metropolis
• IBM to raise Singapore's urban IQ | News | eco-business.com
• Science|Business IBM to set up Smarter Cities technology centre in Ireland
• IBM's Announces Smarter Cities Research Collaboratory in Singapore
• Smart City | Forum Virium Helsinki
• IBM Opens Smarter Cities Technology Centre in Ireland
• IBM Forum Barcelona - IBM Innovation Center - España
• Amsterdam Innovation Motor - Amsterdamse Innovatie Motor
• NYC Urban Technology Innovation Center
• Major New 'Smart Cities' Initiative launched with the support of the European Commission | Open Living Labs
• Busan Launches Mobile App Development Center for City Services Over a Mobile Cloud Infrastructure as Part of Cisco Smart+Connected Communities
• What Makes a Smarter City? IBM Bets on 24 Winners

Companies

It is well known some companies are exploiting heavily the smart city concept as a marketing strategy and competitive positioning. Here you can access to their flagship websites or most prominent initiatives.

• IBM: The Smarter City
• Connected Urban Development - CISCO
• Siemens IT Solutions and Services Global Centre of Competence for City Management - City of the Future - - Siemens
• Philips - because better cities make better lives
• Microsoft and Living PlanIT Partner to Deliver Smart City Technology Via the Cloud

Urban solutions for smart services

A very small selection which serves as a first approximation in which you can find some solutions and examples both from the field of energy management and intelligent management of information and the digital side of urban life. Here the list should be larger, considering that smart cities is a cross-sectoral concept with applications  in different urban services

• Urban Omnibus » Code for America
• Find a Parking Spot - Parking Sensor Technology - Popular Mechanics
• Sensors Make Cities Smarter
• City-User Interaction: Looking Beyond the Smartphone | John Geraci's Blog
• Building an Intelligent City: Solutions Showcase - Accenture Sustainability
• Cover story: Smartening up the city with smart metering
• Smart Grid City - The Architect's Newspaper
• ICT for next generation Cities
• Cities, Rethought - a GOOD Blog
• Mobile Augmented Reality: Apps That Will Change the Way We See theWorld
• Cluster | City - Design - Innovation » Interview with Anette Scheibe of Kista Science City: from Fossil Fuels to Intelligent Transport Solutions 'the Stockholm Way'
• Is Your City a Smarter City? | TheCityFix.com
• The battle for smart cities: Five technologies that matter in 2020 - SmartPlanet
• Dan Hill - New Soft City | IxDA
• Using Technology to Improve City Services - Cities, Rethought - GOOD
• Which Technologies Do You Think Will Shape the City of the Future? | This Big City

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