An urban area that uses technology to provide high-tech services as well as more efficient services to the neighborhood. Wi-Fi hotspots are a prime example; however, traffic monitoring, bus/subway ...

Cities, as the crucible and the hub of human innovation and advancement, face critical changes in their fundamental role. Through a smart city, the global community has strived to converge and ...

It has been at least 50 years since examples of what we now call ‘smart cities’ began to appear. In 1974, officials in Los Angeles, California, used IBM mainframe computers to study poverty in ...

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