05096nam 22003853a 450 991067401160332120250203235432.09783038973430303897343210.3390/books978-3-03897-343-0(CKB)5400000000000419(ScCtBLL)6c9d941e-0619-4a02-831d-ea3cd46b3c7d(OCoLC)1154207409(EXLCZ)99540000000000041920250203i20182019 uu enguru||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSustainable Smart Cities and Smart Villages ResearchAnna Visvizi, Miltiadis LytrasBasel, Switzerland :MDPI,2018.1 online resource (1 p.)9783038973423 3038973424 There is ever more research on smart cities and new interdisciplinary approaches proposed on the study of smart cities. At the same time, problems pertinent to communities inhabiting rural areas are being addressed, as part of discussions in contigious fields of research, be it environmental studies, sociology, or agriculture. Even if rural areas and countryside communities have previously been a subject of concern for robust policy frameworks, such as the European Union's Cohesion Policy and Common Agricultural Policy Arguably, the concept of 'the village' has been largely absent in the debate. As a result, when advances in sophisticated information and communication technology (ICT) led to the emergence of a rich body of research on smart cities, the application and usability of ICT in the context of a village has remained underdiscussed in the literature. Against this backdrop, this volume delivers on four objectives. It delineates the conceptual boundaries of the concept of 'smart village'. It highlights in which ways 'smart village' is distinct from 'smart city'. It examines in which ways smart cities research can enrich smart villages research. It sheds light on the smart village research agenda as it unfolds in European and global contexts.]urban expansion; regression analysis; ordinary least squares; Praia; Cape Verde; Lhasa; urban expansion; determinants; plateau city; policy framework; rural transformation; population-land-industry; coordination degree; Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region; smart city; virtual reality; urban planning; data visualization; declining cities; neighborhood regeneration; governance; public goods; temporary transformation into public land; urban policy; green welfare; discursive examination; ICT skills; smart human cities; digital gap; knowledge society; bi-dimensional identity; needs pyramid; Micro-study; rural settlements; spatial association; dispersion degree; Shandan County in the Hexi Corridor; automation; computational intelligence; data analysis; data mining; disease diagnosis; healthcare; smart living; smart city; social progress; sustainability; housing associations; sustainable return on investment; housing-led urban regeneration; social and environmental value; data envelopment analysis; optimization; energy efficiency; lighting; air conditioning; smart cities; big data; Internet of Things; mobile network; information and communication technology; Taiwan; demand response; genetic algorithm; load scheduling; risk management; Enterprise Risk Management; Business Intelligence; Corporate Performance Management; maturity model; producer service sector; industry location; spatial evolution; influencing factors; Hangzhou; entrepreneurship; crowdfunding; home bias; distance diffusion; pledge results; Kickstarter; European Union; EU directives; municipalities; environmental aims; environmental goals; smart city; smart sustainable city; digitalization; ICT4S; project sustainability; project management; knowledge management; project risk; post-project phases; fuzzy logic; project management quality; free cash flow (FCF); land value; land uses; Sustainable Planning; Valuating Models; waste management; sustainability; cluster analysis; semiconductor; protected designation of origin (PDO); farms; smart villages; economic sustainability; technological sustainability; organizational sustainability and training sustainability; social enterprise; community industries; social economy; Taiwan; smart cities; 'normative bias' of smart cities research; sustainable development; privacy; services; smart villages; innovation clusters; innovation networks; data protection; value adding services; international technology transfer; ecovillage; sustainability; collective identity; mainstreaming; distance; Smart Villages; smart development; sustainability; digitalization; ICT; smart city; smart village; smart cities research; smart villages research; ICT; sustainability; best practice sharing; policymakingVisvizi Anna1256877Lytras MiltiadisScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK9910674011603321Sustainable Smart Cities and Smart Villages Research4322973UNINA