Are you interested in smart city as a platform for technological and social innovation? 
Our summary today works with the book chapter titled Smart cities as a platform for technological and social innovation in productivitiy, sustainability, and livability: A conceptual framework from 2021 by Hyung Min Kim, Soheil Sabri, and Anthony Kent, from the book titled Smart Cities for technological and social innovation, published by Elsevier. Anthony Kent will be the next interviewee on the podcast so this is a great opportunity to understand his ideas a bit better in advance. 
Plus, since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see smart cities as innovation platforms. This chapter presents the evolution of cities from ordinary to smart and the potential social and technological innovations.
As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

Cities are the manifestations of human settlements with a wide range of social and economic activities and they are important because people in cities are important.
Smart cities are the spatial outcome of technological and social innovation and in turn, they are platforms to facilitate innovations.
Smart city is not an end status but a dynamic platform to guide, support and expedite new urban changes via innovations and when the smart city is conceptualised in this manner, any human settlement can be smart.

You can find the chapter through this link.
Abstract: Despite a great deal of attention paid to smart cities, the conceptual framework for understanding them has been partial at best. This chapter establishes a holistic framework to define and evaluate smart cities through three core objectives that any city wants to improve—productivity, sustainability, and livability. Although smartness includes a wide range of aspects within a city, it should tackle the complexity of urban challenges internally and externally generated. Thus, adaptive capacity is becoming more and more important, requiring timely innovation. The chapter asserts cities are and should be a platform for technological and social innovation to enhance these three urban cores. Creating smart cities via innovation is not a one-way process, but reciprocal. Innovation can create smart built environments, and, in turn, smart cities engender innovation. There are many successful evidences and documented examples of both technology-oriented initiatives and social innovation strategies worldwide. However, there is limited understanding of the combined view on technological innovation or social innovation that can contribute to meeting urban challenges. Furthermore, how the urban future might benefit from interdependency and interactions of the elements in these two concepts has not been fully explored. The research will set an agenda for measurement of cities’ performance in productivity, sustainability, and livability from both technological and social innovation perspectives.
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