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From the Editor Journal of Urban Technology, 2015 Vol. 22, No. 1, 1–2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2015.1032095 The transformation of urban areas into so-called smart cities, a result, in part, of the rapid deployment of new urban technologies, has occasioned a storm of litera- ture on the topic in academic journals with this one being no exception. Four of the articles in this issue address the topic in one way or another. The authors of the first paper in this issue, Vito Albino, Umberto Berardi, and Rosa Maria Dangelico, are not the first, nor will they be the last in this journal or others to attempt to bring clarification and standardization to the definition of the term, smart cities. The authors use both academic literature and documents of governments and corpor- ations to discover consistent uses of the term. They also use various metrics and apply them to urban contexts with the goal of comparing smart cities, so defined, to traditional cities, with the aim of measuring performance in the deliv- ery of city services and urban governance. In their article, “Unplugging: Deconstructing the Smart City,” Igor Calzada and Cristobal Cobo argue against some of the basic assumptions of the smart city and call into http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Urban Technology Taylor & Francis

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Hanley, Richard E.
Journal of Urban Technology , Volume 22 (1): 2 – Jan 2, 2015
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Journal of Urban Technology, 2015 Vol. 22, No. 1, 1–2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2015.1032095 The transformation of urban areas into so-called smart cities, a result, in part, of the rapid deployment of new urban technologies, has occasioned a storm of litera- ture on the topic in academic journals with this one being no exception. Four of the articles in this issue address the topic in one way or another. The authors of the first paper in this issue, Vito Albino, Umberto Berardi, and Rosa Maria Dangelico, are not the first, nor will they be the last in this journal or others to attempt to bring clarification and standardization to the definition of the term, smart cities. The authors use both academic literature and documents of governments and corpor- ations to discover consistent uses of the term. They also use various metrics and apply them to urban contexts with the goal of comparing smart cities, so defined, to traditional cities, with the aim of measuring performance in the deliv- ery of city services and urban governance. In their article, “Unplugging: Deconstructing the Smart City,” Igor Calzada and Cristobal Cobo argue against some of the basic assumptions of the smart city and call into

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