Smart Cities in the Mediterranean: Coping with Sustainability Objectives in Small and Medium-sized Cities and Island Communities (Progress in IS)

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 within a rapidly changing social, economic, environmental and technological setting, it explores a variety of planning challenges faced by contemporary cities and the power of smart city developments in terms of providing innovative tools, approaches, methodologies and technologies to help cities cope with these challenges. Key issues addressed include smart city (e-) planning and (e-)participation; smart data management to facilitate decision-making processes in cities and insular communities on a variety of topics; smart and sustainable management aspects of climate change, water scarcity, mobility, energy, infrastructure, tourism, blue growth, risk assessment; etc. The book presents current and potential pathways and applications for the evolution of smart cities and communities, taking into consideration the unique problems and opportunities emanating from their specific geographical location. The case study examples mainly concern small and medium-sized cities and communities as well as insular areas in the Mediterranean region, while also incorporating lessons learned from other parts of the world. Their focus is on the specific opportunities and threats emerging in these urban and insular environments, which are characterized by their role as globally known tourist destinations, their coastal or port character, and unique cultural resources, as well as the high rated vulnerability in very many sustainability respects (social, economic, biodiversity, urbanization, migration, poverty, etc.) to be found in the Mediterranean region at large Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Small and Medium-Sized Cities and Insular Communities in the Mediterranean: Coping with Sustainability Challenges in the Smart City Context....Pages 3-29 Spatial Data Management and Visualization Tools and Technologies for Enhancing Participatory e-Planning in Smart Cities....Pages 31-57 Baakline: Towards a Smart City—Leading Change into Chouf Souayjani Region....Pages 59-84 Smartening-Up Communities in Less-Privileged Urban Areas—The DemoCU Participatory Cultural Planning Experience in Korydallos—Greece Municipality....Pages 85-111 Using Traditional and New Digital Technology Tools to Promote Sustainable Mobility: Current Trends in the Evolving Transformation of the Smart City....Pages 113-133 Turning Messina into a Smart City: The #SmartME Experience....Pages 135-152 The Smart City as Shared Design Space....Pages 153-174 Express Yourself/City—Smart Participation Culture Technologies....Pages 175-194 Smart and Sustainable: Lessons from Fogo Island....Pages 195-203 Adaptive Planning for Reducing Negative Impacts of Climate Change in Case of Hungarian Cities....Pages 205-223 ICT Applications in Smart Ecotourism Environments....Pages 225-244 Maritime Tourism Development and Prospects in Coastal Cities: The Case of Heraklion, Chania and Limassol....Pages 245-269 Front Matter....Pages 271-271 Business Route Planning Using GIS Technology: The Case of Footwear and Leather Retail Stores in Central Athens....Pages 273-293 Spatial Micro Level Analysis of Building Structures in Samos Island....Pages 295-311 Geographical Analysis of Emergency Evacuations in the Aegean Sea: Towards the Utilization of Big Data Analytics....Pages 313-331 Enabling Flexibility from Demand-Side Resources Through Aggregator Companies....Pages 333-353 Test System for Mapping Interdependencies of Critical Infrastructures for Intelligent Management in Smart Cities....Pages 355-377 Disaster Prevention and Emergency Response Using Unmanned Aerial Systems....Pages 379-403 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 within a rapidly changing social, economic, environmental and technological setting, it explores a variety of planning challenges faced by contemporary cities and the power of smart city developments in terms of providing innovative tools, approaches, methodologies and technologies to help cities cope with these challenges. Key issues addressed include smart city (e- ) planning and (e- )participation; smart data management to facilitate decision-making processes in cities and insular communities on a variety of topics; smart and sustainable management aspects of climate change, water scarcity, mobility, energy, infrastructure, tourism, blue growth, risk assessment; etc. The book presents current and potential pathways and applications for the evolution of smart cities and communities, taking into consideration the unique problems and opportunities emanating from their specific geographical location. The case study examples mainly concern small and medium-sized cities and communities as well as insular areas in the Mediterranean region, while also incorporating lessons learned from other parts of the world. Their focus is on the specific opportunities and threats emerging in these urban and insular environments, which are characterized by their role as globally known tourist destinations, their coastal or port character, and unique cultural resources, as well as high rated vulnerability in very many sustainability respects (social, economic, biodiversity, urbanization, migration, poverty, etc.) to be found in the Mediterranean region at large