Cities are now transforming from digital cities to smart cities, digital
Or intelligent cities that are more technology oriented equivalents of
Smart city concepts. A city becomes “smart” when it is instrumented,
Interconnected, adaptive, autonomous, learning, self-repairing, and
Robust. Parts of its infrastructure and facilities are digitally connected
And optimized by using ICT to deliver services to their citizens and other
stakeholders. The theory of smart cities understood from the perception
of technologies and components has some exact properties within the
wider cyber, digital, smart, intelligent cities texts. Intelligent cities,
or intelligent spaces more generally, refer to a wide range of electronic
and digital applications related to digital spaces of communities and
cities, for example smart grids, smart meters, and other infrastructure
for electricity, water supply, and waste management. Digital cities,
derived from digital representation of cities, mean a digital metaphor
of cities, and intelligent cities, derived from the new intelligence of
cities that represent collective and distributed intelligence. Another
related label is “cyber city”, derived from cybernetics, cyberspace,
city governance and control based on information feedback. The
term digital city has been used as an equivalent of “intelligent city”,
“knowledge-based city”, “information city”, “cyberville”, “wired city”,
and “electronic communities”.
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