{"id":1224,"date":"2016-08-04T16:25:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T14:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bise-journal.com\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2016-08-04T16:25:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T14:25:45","slug":"62018-smart-citis-and-digitize-urban-managemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bise-journal.com\/?p=1224","title":{"rendered":"3\/2018 Smart Cities and Digitized Urban Management"},"content":{"rendered":"

Special Issue:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Smart City concept stands at the confluence of several global technological, socioeconomic, and environmental megatrends. On the technological front, Big Data, analytics, block chain, and the Internet of Things enable an ever more interconnected network of people, services, and infrastructures. On the socioeconomic front, urbanization drives people to the cities in search for a better life, demographic developments alter the very structures of society, and a new wave of migration uproots people and recombines social and cultural backgrounds of populations around the globe. Finally, from an environmental perspective, climate change and pollution make entire stretches of land uninhabitable, endanger coastal areas on every continent, and are a widespread cause of unrest and strife.<\/p>\n

Cities are where these trends meet, being the cause of and solution to many of the associated challenges. Cities are responsible for most of the emissions heating the planet, but they are also the places where people turn to and move to, where even small adjustments can have tremendous impact. This is particularly relevant for some individual cities (e.g., in Asia) that show a tendency to grow together towards enormous metro-regions with unprecedented sustainability challenges. Simultaneously, the interaction and integration of smart cities with their outskirts as well as more rural \u201csatellites\u201d becomes a pressing issue.<\/p>\n

Using information systems to improve all of the facets of urban life is the core of the Smart City paradigm. Therefore, this special issue seeks high-quality theoretical, empirical, and design-oriented contributions that outline and demonstrate how IS research can affect and improve urban socio-technical systems and address the issues outlined previously. As the topic is inherently transdisciplinary, we are particularly looking for manuscripts that seek to have an impact within and outside the IS discipline.<\/p>\n

All defining aspects of \u201csmart cities\u201d such as transport, energy, waste, buildings, living, government, economy, and people are of interest.\u00a0 Relevant topic areas include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n