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Dr. Luca Mora
The Business School, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

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Journal article
Published: 23 June 2021 in Government Information Quarterly
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An overly favorable narrative has developed around the role played by digital technologies in containing Covid-19, which oversimplifies the complexity of technology adoption. This narrative takes sociomaterial arrangements for granted and conceptualizes technology affordance - the problem-solving capability of a technology - as a standard built-in feature that automatically activates during technology deployment, leading to undiversified and predetermined collective benefits. This paper demonstrates that not everything is as it seems; implementing a technology is a necessary but insufficient condition for triggering its potential problem-solving capability. The potential affordance and effects of a technology are mediated by the sociomaterial arrangements that users assemble to connect their goals to the materiality of technological artifacts and socio-organizational context in which technology deployment takes place. To substantiate this argument and illustrate the mediating role of sociomaterial arrangements, we build on sociomateriality and technology affordance theory, and we present the results of a systematic review of Covid-19 literature in which 2187 documents are examined. The review combines text data mining, co-occurrence pattern recognition, and inductive coding, and it focuses on four digital technologies that public authorities have deployed as virus containment measures: infrared temperature-sensing devices; ICT-based surveillance and contact-tracing systems; bioinformatic tools and applications for laboratory testing; and electronic mass communications media. Reporting on our findings, we add nuances to the academic debate on sociomateriality, technology affordance, and the governance of technology in public health crises. In addition, we provide public authorities with practical recommendations on how to strengthen their approach to digital technology deployment for pandemic control.

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Luca Mora; Rama Krishna Reddy Kummitha; Giovanni Esposito. Not everything is as it seems: Digital technology affordance, pandemic control, and the mediating role of sociomaterial arrangements. Government Information Quarterly 2021, 101599 .

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Luca Mora, Rama Krishna Reddy Kummitha, Giovanni Esposito. Not everything is as it seems: Digital technology affordance, pandemic control, and the mediating role of sociomaterial arrangements. Government Information Quarterly. 2021; ():101599.

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Luca Mora; Rama Krishna Reddy Kummitha; Giovanni Esposito. 2021. "Not everything is as it seems: Digital technology affordance, pandemic control, and the mediating role of sociomaterial arrangements." Government Information Quarterly , no. : 101599.

Article
Published: 04 March 2021 in Journal of the Knowledge Economy
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Smart cities constitute a new urban paradigm and a hegemonic phenomenon in contemporary city development. The concept envisages a data-enhanced future and efficiency gains made possible by automation and innovation in city activities and utilities. However, the way smart cities are created brings about two weaknesses. First, there is strong compartmentation of solutions and systems, which are developing in vertical markets for energy, transport, governance, safety, etc., silos with little interoperability and sharing of resources. Second, there is a low impact, some increase in efficiency, some reduction in costs, time gained, some decrease in CO2 emissions. There is an important knowledge gap about developing cross-sector, high-impact smart city systems. This paper deals with these challenges and investigates a different direction in smart city design and efficiency. We focus on ‘Connected Intelligence Spaces’ created in smart city ecosystems, which (a) have physical, social, and digital dimensions; (b) work as systems of innovation enabling synergies between human, machine, and collective intelligence; and (c) improve efficiency and performance by innovating rather than optimizing city routines. The research hypothesis we assess is about a universal architecture of high impact smart city projects, due to underlying connected intelligence spaces and cyber-physical-social systems of innovation. We assess this hypothesis with empirical evidence from case studies related to smart city projects dealing with safety (Vision-Zero), transportation (MaaS), and energy (positive energy districts). We highlight the main elements of operation and how high efficiency is achieved across these verticals. We identify commonalities, common innovation functions, and associations between functions, allowing us to define a common architecture enabling innovation and high performance across smart city ecosystems.

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Nicos Komninos; Christina Kakderi; Luca Mora; Anastasia Panori; Elena Sefertzi. Towards High Impact Smart Cities: a Universal Architecture Based on Connected Intelligence Spaces. Journal of the Knowledge Economy 2021, 1 -29.

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Nicos Komninos, Christina Kakderi, Luca Mora, Anastasia Panori, Elena Sefertzi. Towards High Impact Smart Cities: a Universal Architecture Based on Connected Intelligence Spaces. Journal of the Knowledge Economy. 2021; ():1-29.

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Nicos Komninos; Christina Kakderi; Luca Mora; Anastasia Panori; Elena Sefertzi. 2021. "Towards High Impact Smart Cities: a Universal Architecture Based on Connected Intelligence Spaces." Journal of the Knowledge Economy , no. : 1-29.

From the guest editors
Published: 04 December 2020 in Journal of Urban Technology
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This Special Issue begins with a middle-range theory of sustainable smart city transitions, which forms bridges between theorizing in smart city development studies and some of the foundational assumptions underpinning transition management and system innovation research, human geography, spatial planning, and critical urban scholarship. This interdisciplinary theoretical formulation details our evidence-based interpretation of how smart city transitions should be conceptualized and enacted in order to overcome the oversimplification fallacy resulting from corporate discourses on smart urbanism. By offering a broad and realistic understanding of smart city transitions, the proposed theory combines different smart-city-related concepts in a model which attempts to expose what causal mechanisms surface in sustainable smart city transitions and to guide empirical inquiry in smart city research. Together with all the authors contributing to this Special Issue, our objective is to give smart city research more robust scientific foundations and to generate theoretical propositions upon which subsequent large-scale empirical testing can be conducted. With the proposed middle-range theory, different empirical settings can be investigated by using the same analytical elements, facilitating the cross-case analysis and synthesis of the systematic research efforts which are progressively contributing to shedding light on the assemblage of sustainable smart city transitions.

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Luca Mora; Mark Deakin; Xiaoling Zhang; Michael Batty; Martin de Jong; Paolo Santi; Francesco Paolo Appio. Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective. Journal of Urban Technology 2020, 28, 1 -27.

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Luca Mora, Mark Deakin, Xiaoling Zhang, Michael Batty, Martin de Jong, Paolo Santi, Francesco Paolo Appio. Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective. Journal of Urban Technology. 2020; 28 (1-2):1-27.

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Luca Mora; Mark Deakin; Xiaoling Zhang; Michael Batty; Martin de Jong; Paolo Santi; Francesco Paolo Appio. 2020. "Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective." Journal of Urban Technology 28, no. 1-2: 1-27.

Review article
Published: 11 September 2020 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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Scientific knowledge on autonomous-driving technology is expanding at a faster-than-ever pace. As a result, the likelihood of incurring information overload is particularly notable for researchers, who can struggle to overcome the gap between information processing requirements and information processing capacity. We address this issue by adopting a multi-granulation approach to latent knowledge discovery and synthesis in large-scale research domains. The proposed methodology combines citation-based community detection methods and topic modeling techniques to give a concise but comprehensive overview of how the autonomous vehicle (AV) research field is conceptually structured. Thirteen core thematic areas are extracted and presented by mining the large data-rich environments resulting from 50 years of AV research. The analysis demonstrates that this research field is strongly oriented towards examining the technological developments needed to enable the widespread rollout of AVs, whereas it largely overlooks the wide-ranging sustainability implications of this sociotechnical transition. On account of these findings, we call for a broader engagement of AV researchers with the sustainability concept and we invite them to increase their commitment to conducting systematic investigations into the sustainability of AV deployment. Sustainability research is urgently required to produce an evidence-based understanding of what new sociotechnical arrangements are needed to ensure that the systemic technological change introduced by AV-based transport systems can fulfill societal functions while meeting the urgent need for more sustainable transport solutions.

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Luca Mora; Xinyi Wu; Anastasia Panori. Mind the gap: Developments in autonomous driving research and the sustainability challenge. Journal of Cleaner Production 2020, 275, 124087 -124087.

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Luca Mora, Xinyi Wu, Anastasia Panori. Mind the gap: Developments in autonomous driving research and the sustainability challenge. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2020; 275 ():124087-124087.

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Luca Mora; Xinyi Wu; Anastasia Panori. 2020. "Mind the gap: Developments in autonomous driving research and the sustainability challenge." Journal of Cleaner Production 275, no. : 124087-124087.

Article
Published: 12 August 2020 in International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal
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This present editorial illustrates the recent evolution of strategy, organization and entrepreneurship in smart city. Referring to strategy, integrated smart city strategies aim to connect the physical space of cities with the economic and social sphere – a connection that although clearly existing, has always been troublesome for scientists and policy makers. Referring to organization, the interplay between theorizing and researching in the context of smart cities and will offer an improved understanding of how organization theories apply to complex ICT-related urban transformations and the societal challenge of enabling smart city development. Referring to entrepreneurship, a synchronization among the actors is necessary to make entrepreneurial activities flourishing and conducive of a ‘smarter’ smartification of cities. The editorial ends by providing a short summary of the six articles included in the special issue.

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Francesco Schiavone; Francesco Paolo Appio; Luca Mora; Marcello Risitano. The strategic, organizational, and entrepreneurial evolution of smart cities. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal 2020, 16, 1155 -1165.

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Francesco Schiavone, Francesco Paolo Appio, Luca Mora, Marcello Risitano. The strategic, organizational, and entrepreneurial evolution of smart cities. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal. 2020; 16 (4):1155-1165.

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Francesco Schiavone; Francesco Paolo Appio; Luca Mora; Marcello Risitano. 2020. "The strategic, organizational, and entrepreneurial evolution of smart cities." International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal 16, no. 4: 1155-1165.

Book chapter
Published: 25 April 2020 in Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Luca Mora; Mark Deakin; Yusuf A. Aina; Francesco Paolo Appio. Smart City Development: ICT Innovation for Urban Sustainability. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2020, 589 -605.

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Luca Mora, Mark Deakin, Yusuf A. Aina, Francesco Paolo Appio. Smart City Development: ICT Innovation for Urban Sustainability. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 2020; ():589-605.

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Luca Mora; Mark Deakin; Yusuf A. Aina; Francesco Paolo Appio. 2020. "Smart City Development: ICT Innovation for Urban Sustainability." Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals , no. : 589-605.

City tour
Published: 02 October 2019 in disP - The Planning Review
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For more than two decades, entrepreneurship has been promoted as an effective means to advance the aims of urban development. Social entrepreneurship, more specifically, is seen as a driver of urban innovation and experimentation at the local level. Nevertheless, in-depth research about the opportunities that arise from the coordination of urban planning with social entrepreneurship policy at the local level is lacking. Inspired by this realisation, the research presented in this paper investigates six European cities (Terrassa, Spain; Göteborg, Sweden; Torino, Italy; Lisbon, Portugal; Porto, Portugal; and Hengelo, the Netherlands) that have adopted a coordinated approach to promote social entrepreneurship in their territory. We identify the developmental benefits sought by these cities in promoting social entrepreneurship, the ways in which urban planning supports social entrepreneurship policy and vice versa, and the key challenges that cities face in pursing this. We conclude that the coordination of urban planning with social entrepreneurship policy is an emergent, interdisciplinary field with high growth potential given the current socio-economic challenges facing cities. However, the lack of awareness, expertise, actionable data and formal processes stand in the way of realising this potential.

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Margarita Angelidou; Luca Mora. Developing Synergies Between Social Entrepreneurship and Urban Planning. disP - The Planning Review 2019, 55, 28 -45.

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Margarita Angelidou, Luca Mora. Developing Synergies Between Social Entrepreneurship and Urban Planning. disP - The Planning Review. 2019; 55 (4):28-45.

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Margarita Angelidou; Luca Mora. 2019. "Developing Synergies Between Social Entrepreneurship and Urban Planning." disP - The Planning Review 55, no. 4: 28-45.

Reference work
Published: 21 August 2019 in Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Luca Mora; Mark Deakin; Yusuf A. Aina; Francesco Paolo Appio. Smart City Development: ICT Innovation for Urban Sustainability. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2019, 1 -17.

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Luca Mora, Mark Deakin, Yusuf A. Aina, Francesco Paolo Appio. Smart City Development: ICT Innovation for Urban Sustainability. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 2019; ():1-17.

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Luca Mora; Mark Deakin; Yusuf A. Aina; Francesco Paolo Appio. 2019. "Smart City Development: ICT Innovation for Urban Sustainability." Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals , no. : 1-17.

Reference work
Published: 01 February 2019 in Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Smart city: A city in which issues limiting sustainable urban development are tackled by means of ICT-related solutions. Please note that, in this definition and this chapter, the term “city” is used...

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Luca Mora; Mark Deakin; Yusuf A. Aina; Francesco Paolo Appio. Smart City Development: ICT Innovation for Urban Sustainability. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2019, 1 -17.

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Luca Mora, Mark Deakin, Yusuf A. Aina, Francesco Paolo Appio. Smart City Development: ICT Innovation for Urban Sustainability. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 2019; ():1-17.

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Luca Mora; Mark Deakin; Yusuf A. Aina; Francesco Paolo Appio. 2019. "Smart City Development: ICT Innovation for Urban Sustainability." Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals , no. : 1-17.

Journal article
Published: 11 January 2019 in Sustainability
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The application of practice theories in the domain of sustainability research in consumer studies is increasingly advocated based on the premise that this allows to analyse consumption as a social phenomenon. Consequently, the applications of social practice theories to this field are expanding geometrically and to date, little retrospective work on this evolution has been made. We conduct a bibliometric analysis of applications of practice theories in the domain of sustainability research in consumer studies. Our results show a temporal succession of research trends: ‘consumer identity’ dominated the field between 2009 and 2012, ‘business and governance’ between 2012 and 2014, ‘sustainable consumption and production’ between 2013 and 2014, ‘urban living and policy’ between 2014 and 2015 and ‘household energy’ from 2015 until the present. We see a high potential of future applications of practice theories in the fields of the sharing and circular economy, as well as in research on smart cities. We provide new insights into the evolution and future trends of applications of social practice theory to domains that are relevant for research on sustainability and consumer studies.

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Filippo Corsini; Rafael Laurenti; Franziska Meinherz; Francesco Paolo Appio; Luca Mora. The Advent of Practice Theories in Research on Sustainable Consumption: Past, Current and Future Directions of the Field. Sustainability 2019, 11, 341 .

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Filippo Corsini, Rafael Laurenti, Franziska Meinherz, Francesco Paolo Appio, Luca Mora. The Advent of Practice Theories in Research on Sustainable Consumption: Past, Current and Future Directions of the Field. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (2):341.

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Filippo Corsini; Rafael Laurenti; Franziska Meinherz; Francesco Paolo Appio; Luca Mora. 2019. "The Advent of Practice Theories in Research on Sustainable Consumption: Past, Current and Future Directions of the Field." Sustainability 11, no. 2: 341.

Journal article
Published: 25 July 2018 in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
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Recent studies reveal a deep-rooted division in research on smart cities, which surfaces as a set of dichotomies that question whether smart city development should be based on a: (1) technology-led or holistic strategy; (2) double or quadruple-helix model of collaboration; (3) top-down or bottom-up approach; (4) mono-dimensional or integrated intervention logic. These dichotomies generate a critical knowledge gap because they suggest divergent hypotheses on what principles need to be considered when implementing strategies for enabling smart city development. This paper starts filling such a gap by reporting on the findings of a multiple case study analysis which is conducted into European best practices. In meeting this aim, four European cities considered to be leaders in the field of smart city development are analyzed to test the validity of the hypotheses emerging from each dichotomy. These cities are Amsterdam, Barcelona, Helsinki and Vienna. The results of this best practice analysis offer a series of critical insights into what strategic principles drive smart city development in Europe and generate scientific knowledge which helps to overcome the dichotomous nature of smart city research.

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Luca Mora; Mark Deakin; Alasdair Reid. Strategic principles for smart city development: A multiple case study analysis of European best practices. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2018, 142, 70 -97.

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Luca Mora, Mark Deakin, Alasdair Reid. Strategic principles for smart city development: A multiple case study analysis of European best practices. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 2018; 142 ():70-97.

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Luca Mora; Mark Deakin; Alasdair Reid. 2018. "Strategic principles for smart city development: A multiple case study analysis of European best practices." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 142, no. : 70-97.

Journal article
Published: 25 July 2018 in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
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Bibliometrics is a powerful tool for analyzing knowledge domains and revealing their cognitive-epistemological structure. Different mathematical models and statistical techniques have been proposed and tested to carry out bibliometric analyses and demonstrate their effectiveness in uncovering how fields of research are intellectually structured. These include two hybrid techniques that allow clusters of related documents obtained from a co-citation analysis to be labeled using textual data. This paper reports on the findings of a bibliometric study in which these hybrid techniques are combined to: (1) build and visualize the network of publications shaping the intellectual structure of the smart city research field by considering the first two decades of literature dealing with this subject; (2) map the clusters of thematically-related publications; and (3) reveal the emerging development paths of smart cities that each thematic cluster represents and the strategic principles they embody. The five development paths which the analysis uncovers and the strategic principles each stands on are then compared by reviewing the most recent literature on smart cities. Overall, this bibliometric study offers a systematic review of the research on smart cities produced since 1992 and helps bridge the division affecting this research area, demonstrating that it is caused by the dichotomous nature of the development paths of smart cities that each thematic cluster relates to and the strategic principles they in turn support.

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Luca Mora; Mark Deakin; Alasdair Reid. Combining co-citation clustering and text-based analysis to reveal the main development paths of smart cities. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2018, 142, 56 -69.

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Luca Mora, Mark Deakin, Alasdair Reid. Combining co-citation clustering and text-based analysis to reveal the main development paths of smart cities. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 2018; 142 ():56-69.

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Luca Mora; Mark Deakin; Alasdair Reid. 2018. "Combining co-citation clustering and text-based analysis to reveal the main development paths of smart cities." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 142, no. : 56-69.

Conference paper
Published: 26 April 2018 in Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions
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More than 20 years have now passed since the concept of smart city first appeared in a scholarly publication, marking the beginning of a new era in urban innovation. Since then, the literature discussing this new concept and the ICT-oriented urban-innovation approach it stands for has been growing steadily, along with the number of initiatives that cities all over the world have launched to pursue their ambition of becoming smart. However, current research still falls short of providing a clear understanding of smart cities and the scientific knowledge policy makers and practitioners both need to deal with their progressive development. In response to this shortfall, this paper offers a bibliometric study of the first two decades of smart-city research, whereby citation link-based clustering and text-based analysis are combined to: (1) build and visualize the network of scholarly publications shaping the intellectual structure of the smart city research field; (2) identify the clusters of thematically related publications; and (3) reveal the emerging development paths of smart cities that these clusters support and the strategic principles they embody. This study uncovers five main development paths: the Experimental Path; the Ubiquitous Path; the Corporate Path; the European Path; and the Holistic Path. Overall, this analysis offers a comprehensive and systematic view of how a smart city can be understood theoretically and as a scientific object of knowledge able to inform policy-making processes.

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Luca Mora; Mark Deakin; Alasdair Reid. Smart-City Development Paths: Insights from the First Two Decades of Research. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions 2018, 403 -427.

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Luca Mora, Mark Deakin, Alasdair Reid. Smart-City Development Paths: Insights from the First Two Decades of Research. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions. 2018; ():403-427.

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Luca Mora; Mark Deakin; Alasdair Reid. 2018. "Smart-City Development Paths: Insights from the First Two Decades of Research." Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions , no. : 403-427.