Smart Cities: Lock-in, Path-dependence and Non-linearity of Digitalization and Smartification

This book seeks to identify and to examine factors and mechanisms underlying the growth and development of smart cities.

It is commonplace to discuss smart cities through the lens of advances in ICT. The resulting overemphasis on what is technologically possible downplays what is politically, socially and economically feasible. This book, by analysing the smart city through a variety of perspectives, offers a more comprehensive insight into and understanding of the complex and the open-ended...