'Smart city development has emerged a major issue over the past 5 years. Since the launch of IBM's Smart Planet and CISCO's Smart Cities and Communities programmes, their potential to deliver
on global sustainable development targets have captured the public's attention. However, despite this growing interest in the development of smart cities, little has as yet been published that
either sets out the state-of-the-art, or which offers a less than subjective, arm's length and dispassionate account of their potential contribution. This book brings together cutting edge
research and the findings from technical development projects from leading authorities within the field to capture the transition to smart cities. It explores what is understood about smart
cities, playing particular attention on the governance, modelling and analysis of the transition that smart cities seek to represent. In paving the way for such a representation, the book
begins to account for the social capital of smart communities and begins the task of modelling their embedded intelligence through an analysis of what the 'embedded intelligence of smart
cities' contributes to the sustainability of urban development'--
