Sustainable Smart City Transitions: Theoretical Foundations, Sociotechnical Assemblage and Governance Mechanisms
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Mora, L., Deakin, M., Zhang, X., Batty, M., de Jong, M., Santi, P., & Appio, F. P. (2022)
Sustainable Smart City Transitions: Theoretical Foundations, Sociotechnical Assemblage and Governance Mechanisms. New York City, NY: Routledge
This book enhances the reader’s understanding of the theoretical foundations, sociotechnical assemblage, and governance mechanisms of sustainable smart city transitions. Drawi...
Evidence-informed decision-making in Smart Specialisation Strategies: a patent-based approach for discovering regional technological capabilities
Journal Article
Natalicchio, A., Mora, L., Ardito, L., & Petruzzelli, A. M. (2022)
Evidence-informed decision-making in Smart Specialisation Strategies: a patent-based approach for discovering regional technological capabilities. Regional Studies, 56(9), 1442-1453. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2021.1988551
Discovering regional technological capabilities is key to underpinning the place-based and evidence-driven logic of Smart Specialisation. However, a comprehensive methodologic...
One Size Does Not Fit All: Framing Smart City Policy Narratives within Regional Socio-Economic Contexts in Brussels and Wallonia
Journal Article
Esposito, G., Clement, J., Mora, L., & Crutzen, N. (2021)
One Size Does Not Fit All: Framing Smart City Policy Narratives within Regional Socio-Economic Contexts in Brussels and Wallonia. Cities, 118, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2021.103329
Smart city initiatives are increasingly dominating urban policy scripts worldwide, and their diffusion is centered upon different regional strategies. Adopting the Narrative P...
Not everything is as it seems: digital technology affordance, pandemic control, and the mediating role of sociomaterial arrangements
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Mora, L., Kummitha, R. K. R., & Esposito, G. (2021)
Not everything is as it seems: digital technology affordance, pandemic control, and the mediating role of sociomaterial arrangements. Government Information Quarterly, 38(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2021.101599
An overly favorable narrative has developed around the role played by digital technologies in containing Covid-19, which oversimplifies the complexity of technology adoption. ...
Towards High Impact Smart Cities: a Universal Architecture Based on Connected Intelligence Spaces
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Komninos, N., Kakderi, C., Mora, L., Panori, A., & Sefertzi, E. (in press)
Towards High Impact Smart Cities: a Universal Architecture Based on Connected Intelligence Spaces. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-021-00767-0
Smart cities constitute a new urban paradigm and a hegemonic phenomenon in contemporary city development. The concept envisages a data-enhanced future and efficiency gains mad...
Smart cities: the metrics of future internet-based developments and the renewable energies of urban and regional innovation
Journal Article
Deakin, M., Reid, A., & Mora, L. (2020)
Smart cities: the metrics of future internet-based developments and the renewable energies of urban and regional innovation. Journal of Urban Technology, 27(4), 59-78. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2020.1868738
This paper closes a gap in the literature on smart cities relating to the metrics of future Internet-based developments. It achieves this by presenting the findings of a case ...
Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective
Journal Article
Mora, L., Deakin, M., Zhang, X., Batty, M., de Jong, M., Santi, P., & Appio, F. P. (2021)
Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective. Journal of Urban Technology, 28(1-2), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2020.1834831
This Special Issue begins with a middle-range theory of sustainable smart city transitions, which forms bridges between theorizing in smart city development studies and some o...
Strategic Planning for Smart City Development: Assessing Spatial Inequalities in the Basic Service Provision of Metropolitan Cities
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Du, M., Zhang, X., & Mora, L. (2021)
Strategic Planning for Smart City Development: Assessing Spatial Inequalities in the Basic Service Provision of Metropolitan Cities. Journal of Urban Technology, 28(1-2), 115-134. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2020.1803715
Spatial inequality in basic service provision is a key challenge for smart city development strategies. With a focus on walkable accessibility, this paper proposes a new metho...
Mind the Gap: Developments in Autonomous Driving Research and the Sustainability Challenge
Journal Article
Mora, L., Wu, X., & Panori, A. (2020)
Mind the Gap: Developments in Autonomous Driving Research and the Sustainability Challenge. Journal of Cleaner Production, 275, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124087
Scientific knowledge on autonomous-driving technology is expanding at a faster-than-ever pace. As a result, the likelihood of incurring information overload is particularly no...
The strategic, organizational, and entrepreneurial evolution of smart cities
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Schiavone, F., Appio, F. P., Mora, L., & Risitano, M. (2020)
The strategic, organizational, and entrepreneurial evolution of smart cities. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 16, 1155–1165 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-020-00696-5
This present editorial illustrates the recent evolution of strategy, organization and entrepreneurship in smart city. Referring to strategy, integrated smart city strategies a...