Smart Cities in the Mediterranean Coping with Sustainability Objecti
This book sheds new light on the current and future challenges faced by cities, and presents approaches, options and solutions enabled by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the smart city context. By focusing on sustainability objectives
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Anastasia Stratigea Elias Kyriakides Chrysses Nicolaides Editors
Smart Cities in the Mediterranean Coping with Sustainability Objectives in Small and Medium-sized Cities and Island Communities
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Anastasia Stratigea Elias Kyriakides Chrysses Nicolaides •
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Smart Cities in the Mediterranean Coping with Sustainability Objectives in Small and Medium-sized Cities and Island Communities
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Editors Anastasia Stratigea Department of Geography and Regional Planning, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering National Technical University of Athens Athens Greece
Chrysses Nicolaides SMART-MED Cluster Founder CNE Business Development Ltd. Limassol Cyprus
Elias Kyriakides Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence University of Cyprus Nicosia Cyprus
ISSN 2196-8705 Progress in IS ISBN 978-3-319-54557-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-54558-5
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Editorial
For several decades now, the overarching goal of sustainable urban development constitutes a core issue for planning and policy making endeavors in many city environments around the globe. Such endeavors are nowadays further intensified, mainly due to the increasing stress placed on urban constellations by the continuously escalating urbanization trend. As many researchers point out, we are currently living in a century characterized as the “Urban Age,” with
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