Anna Visvizi, PhD (dr hab.), is an economist and political scientist, editor, researcher, and political consultant with extensive experience in academia, think-tank and government sectors in Europe and the United States, including the OECD. She is an Associate Professor at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland, Visiting Professor at Effat University, Saudi Arabia, and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Hellenic Growth and Prosperity (IHGP), at the American College of Greece. Her expertise covers issues pertinent to the intersection of politics, economics and ICT, especially AI and blockchain, in such domains as smart cities/smart villages, geopolitics, and business management.

Hanna Godlewska-Majkowska - professor, head of Institute of Enterprise, Collegium of Business Administration at SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland; vice-rector at SGH Warsaw School of Economics in 2016-2020. Scientific interests, including issues in local and regional development, business location, and investment attractiveness of regions, are related to the function of an expert in local government units.

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Contributors

Introduction

Chapter 1:

Not only technology: From smart city 1.0. through smart city 4.0 and beyond (an introduction)

• Anna Visvizi
• Hanna Godlewska-Majkowska

Part 1: Spatial aspects of smart cities' growth and development

Chapter 2

Path dependence, lock-in and non-linearity in the growth and development of smart cities

• Hanna Godlewska-Majkowska

Chapter 3

The smart city and its contexts: A focus on smart villages and smart territories

• Malgorzata Dziembala
• Radosaw Malik
• Anna Visvizi

Chapter 4

Smartication, quality of life, and the challenges of urbanism: the case of the Line city

• Abeer S. Y. Mohamed

Chapter 5

Unveiling the Role of Urban Discontinuity on Equity in Public Green Open Spaces: The Case of Alexandria, Egypt

• Shahira Assem Abdel-Razek
• Sara Mohamed Sabry Zakaria Ibrahim

Part 2: Territory, scale, inclusion, and participation in the smart city debate

Chapter 6

Toward the metaverse. Smartification of public space management: what do we learn from smart cities in the EU?

• Tomasz Pilewicz

Chapter 7

Algorithms and Geo-Discrimination Risk. What Hazards for Smart Cities' development?

• Ciro Clemente De Falco
• Emilia Romeo

Chapter 8

Generative AI (GenAI) and smart cities: efficiency, cohesion, and sustainability

• Marco Moreno-Ibarra
• Magdalena Saldaña-Perez
• Samuel Pérez Rodríguez
• Emmanuel Juárez Carbajal

Part 3: Navigating the constraints of time, space, territory, and built environment in the smart city context

Chapter 9

Smart city, ICT and older people: developing inclusive public space and housing conditions

• Ewelina Szczech-Pietkiewicz
• Zofia Szweda-Lewandowska
• Joanna Felczak
• Pawe Kubicki

Chapter 10

Smart transport systems and smart cities' growth and development. The case of Poland

• Agnieszka Domäska
• Radosaw Malik

Chapter 11

Automated vehicles in smart cities: Challenges pertaining to automated and connected transport. The case of Romania

• Liliana Andrei
• Oana Luca
• Emanuel Ru

Chapter 12

Public-private partnership (PPP) and ICT in a mega-smart-city. The case of Istanbul

• Sabina Klimek

Chapter 13

An alternative view on smart cities: can small towns become smart?

• Giovanni Baldi
• Antonio Botti