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Prof. Dr. Tan Yigitcanlar
Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia

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Tan Yigitcanlar is an eminent Australian researcher with international recognition and impact in the field of urban studies and planning. He is an Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the School of Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Along with this post, he carries out an Honorary Professor role at the School of Technology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil, and the Founding Director position of the Australia-Brazil Smart City Research and Practice Network. He is recognised as an ‘Australian Research Superstars’ in Social Sciences at The Australian’s 2020 Research Special Report. He has been responsible for research, teaching, training and capacity building programs on the fields of urban studies and planning in esteemed Australian, Brazilian, Finnish, Japanese, and Turkish universities. His research aims to address contemporary urban planning and development challenges—that are economic, societal, spatial, governance or technology related in nature. The main foci of his research interests, within the broad field of urban studies and planning, are clustered around the following three interdisciplinary themes: (a) Smart Technologies, Communities, Cities and Urbanism; (b) Knowledge-Based Development of Cities and Innovation Districts; (c) Sustainable and Resilient Cities, Communities and Urban Ecosystems.

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Case report
Published: 25 August 2021 in Sustainability
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Whilst a plethora of research exists on the smart cities and project performance evaluations, only few studies have focused on the smart city policy evaluation from the perspective of its acceptance by practitioners. This paper aims to generate insights by evaluating the smart city policy through a developing country case study—i.e., Malaysia. This study employed a questionnaire survey method for data collection and analyzed the data by using Fuzzy Delphi analysis. A group of 40 practitioners was gathered in a focus group discussion through purposive sampling. The main objectives of this survey were to identify the understanding and acceptance levels of the seven smart city domains and respective strategies that are outlined in the Malaysian Smart City Framework. The results disclosed that the practitioners possessed divergent levels of understanding and acceptance in terms of smart city domains. The study participant practitioners accepted all understanding and acceptance objectives of smart economy, living, people, and governance domains (expert agreement 75–92% and threshold d value 0.123–0.188), but rejected all objectives for both smart environment and digital infrastructure domains (expert agreement 55–74% and threshold d value 0.150–0.212). Along with this, acceptance of smart mobility was also rejected (expert agreement 56% and threshold d value 0.245). The findings reveal that considering all opinions expressing dissensus is essential when building more inclusive smart city strategies. This study contributes to the smart city discourse as being one of the first in capturing professional practitioners’ understanding and acceptance on a national level smart city policy by applying the Delphi method in the smart city context. Most importantly, the study informs urban policymakers on how to capture the voices and perspectives of the general public on national and local smart city strategy and initiatives.

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Seng Boon Lim; Jalaluddin Abdul Malek; Farabi Yussoff Md Yussoff; Tan Yigitcanlar. Understanding and Acceptance of Smart City Policies: Practitioners’ Perspectives on the Malaysian Smart City Framework. Sustainability 2021, 13, 9559 .

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Seng Boon Lim, Jalaluddin Abdul Malek, Farabi Yussoff Md Yussoff, Tan Yigitcanlar. Understanding and Acceptance of Smart City Policies: Practitioners’ Perspectives on the Malaysian Smart City Framework. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (17):9559.

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Seng Boon Lim; Jalaluddin Abdul Malek; Farabi Yussoff Md Yussoff; Tan Yigitcanlar. 2021. "Understanding and Acceptance of Smart City Policies: Practitioners’ Perspectives on the Malaysian Smart City Framework." Sustainability 13, no. 17: 9559.

Perspective
Published: 10 August 2021 in Sustainability
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Smart cities and artificial intelligence (AI) are among the most popular discourses in urban policy circles. Most attempts at using AI to improve efficiencies in cities have nevertheless either struggled or failed to accomplish the smart city transformation. This is mainly due to short-sighted, technologically determined and reductionist AI approaches being applied to complex urbanization problems. Besides this, as smart cities are underpinned by our ability to engage with our environments, analyze them, and make efficient, sustainable and equitable decisions, the need for a green AI approach is intensified. This perspective paper, reflecting authors’ opinions and interpretations, concentrates on the “green AI” concept as an enabler of the smart city transformation, as it offers the opportunity to move away from purely technocentric efficiency solutions towards efficient, sustainable and equitable solutions capable of realizing the desired urban futures. The aim of this perspective paper is two-fold: first, to highlight the fundamental shortfalls in mainstream AI system conceptualization and practice, and second, to advocate the need for a consolidated AI approach—i.e., green AI—to further support smart city transformation. The methodological approach includes a thorough appraisal of the current AI and smart city literatures, practices, developments, trends and applications. The paper informs authorities and planners on the importance of the adoption and deployment of AI systems that address efficiency, sustainability and equity issues in cities.

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Tan Yigitcanlar; Rashid Mehmood; Juan M. Corchado. Green Artificial Intelligence: Towards an Efficient, Sustainable and Equitable Technology for Smart Cities and Futures. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8952 .

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Tan Yigitcanlar, Rashid Mehmood, Juan M. Corchado. Green Artificial Intelligence: Towards an Efficient, Sustainable and Equitable Technology for Smart Cities and Futures. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (16):8952.

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Tan Yigitcanlar; Rashid Mehmood; Juan M. Corchado. 2021. "Green Artificial Intelligence: Towards an Efficient, Sustainable and Equitable Technology for Smart Cities and Futures." Sustainability 13, no. 16: 8952.

Journal article
Published: 03 August 2021 in Future Internet
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This study aims to analyze the application of good enough governance in considering the citizens’ value propositions that shape smart city societies. This paper applied a quantitative method with cross-country comparisons. Survey data were derived from the World Values Survey. Malaysia was chosen as the main study area, and compared with Indonesia and other countries worldwide. The findings revealed that politics is the value of least concern across all samples. In terms of qualities for children to develop, respondents in both Malaysia and Indonesia were less concerned about imagination and unselfishness. As for materialist versus post-materialist, the ratios of Malaysia and Indonesia were slightly higher than the average; the post-materialist value of free speech was the lowest value chosen. In the long term, all countries are experiencing the trend of moving toward post-materialist societies. To be sustained under the Collective and Adaptive System of smart city societies, good enough governance in Malaysia and Indonesia should consider the cultural context of the Muslim majority, prioritize governance content that allows more space for political participation and free speech, and cultivate the imagination and unselfishness of children. The generated insights underline the critical role that smart societies play in establishing smart cities.

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Seng Lim; Jalaluddin Malek; Tan Yigitcanlar. Post-Materialist Values of Smart City Societies: International Comparison of Public Values for Good Enough Governance. Future Internet 2021, 13, 201 .

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Seng Lim, Jalaluddin Malek, Tan Yigitcanlar. Post-Materialist Values of Smart City Societies: International Comparison of Public Values for Good Enough Governance. Future Internet. 2021; 13 (8):201.

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Seng Lim; Jalaluddin Malek; Tan Yigitcanlar. 2021. "Post-Materialist Values of Smart City Societies: International Comparison of Public Values for Good Enough Governance." Future Internet 13, no. 8: 201.

Review article
Published: 22 July 2021 in Energy Research & Social Science
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Smart home technology provides a suite of independently and remotely controlled software and hardware that are connected into a network to deliver smart living. Smart homes have immense potential to shape the future living, and the market is maturing, but factors influencing households’ adoption of smart home technology services are still an understudied area. The study aims to identify the prominent smart home technology services and generate an understanding of the motivations, barriers, and risks of adoption from a consumer perspective. The paper reviews the literature and builds a conceptual framework of smart home adoption. The findings disclose: (a) Prominent technology services are associated with healthcare, energy efficiency and home security; (b) Primary motivations to adopt smart home technology services include efficient energy management, better home-based healthcare services, potential financial savings and benefits, and enhanced quality of life; (c) Main barriers to the smart home adoption include the distrust and resistance, limited perception of smart home, concerns of financial issues, privacy and security concerns, technology anxiety and negative social influences, and; (d) Main risks include privacy and security threats, energy rebounds and wasteful consumption, difficulty in the domestication of technology and destructiveness in domestic life.

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Wenda Li; Tan Yigitcanlar; Isil Erol; Aaron Liu. Motivations, barriers and risks of smart home adoption: From systematic literature review to conceptual framework. Energy Research & Social Science 2021, 80, 102211 .

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Wenda Li, Tan Yigitcanlar, Isil Erol, Aaron Liu. Motivations, barriers and risks of smart home adoption: From systematic literature review to conceptual framework. Energy Research & Social Science. 2021; 80 ():102211.

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Wenda Li; Tan Yigitcanlar; Isil Erol; Aaron Liu. 2021. "Motivations, barriers and risks of smart home adoption: From systematic literature review to conceptual framework." Energy Research & Social Science 80, no. : 102211.

Journal article
Published: 22 June 2021 in Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
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Renewable energy and energy efficiency are recognized among the key factors of transitioning towards a low-consumption and low-carbon society. In order to achieve such transition, the government policies should be aimed at meeting the renewable energy generation and energy efficiency targets of specific localities. Nonetheless, these targets vary between different urban regions, and there is limited knowledge on the correlation between energy transition and urbanization levels. The aim of this paper is to identify that correlation in urban regions. This study places Italian regions under the microscope of an empirical investigation. The study adopts a two-step analysis that provides a useful model for regional analyses. The results of the study consolidates our understanding and highlights that the energy transition process requires greater efforts concerning social participation and provision of incentives for renewable energy production, mainly in the less urbanized areas.

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T.L. Lantz; G. Ioppolo; T. Yigitcanlar; R. Arbolino. Understanding the correlation between energy transition and urbanization. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 2021, 40, 73 -86.

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T.L. Lantz, G. Ioppolo, T. Yigitcanlar, R. Arbolino. Understanding the correlation between energy transition and urbanization. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 2021; 40 ():73-86.

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T.L. Lantz; G. Ioppolo; T. Yigitcanlar; R. Arbolino. 2021. "Understanding the correlation between energy transition and urbanization." Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 40, no. : 73-86.

Review
Published: 10 June 2021 in Cities
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Over the past two decades, the development of a new set of technologies, devices and applications has supported the emergence of a new infocommunicational landscape in cities—one of the key fuels to the growth of smart cities movement. Digital media platforms, ubiquitous technologies and geographic annotation technologies have blurred the boundaries of virtual and physical environments—with an access through digital devices and specifically mobile devices. The paper aims to investigate the emerging location-based and mapping technologies to develop a clearer understanding on their applicability in the urban context by identifying and categorizing the key drivers based on desired outcomes. In order to achieve this aim, the study undertakes a systematic literature review on the planned and applied use of location-based technologies for mapping urban environments. In doing so, the paper outlines the spatial distribution of these advanced technologies across globe, and presents a synthesis of the emerging themes and categories, and potential avenues for future research. The study findings reveal three types of mapping approaches—i.e., reason-oriented, sense-oriented and community-oriented—that are linked to two modes of use—i.e., desktop and in-situ.

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Laryssa Tarachucky; Jamile Sabatini-Marques; Tan Yigitcanlar; Maria José Baldessar; Surabhi Pancholi. Mapping hybrid cities through location-based technologies: A systematic review of the literature. Cities 2021, 116, 103296 .

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Laryssa Tarachucky, Jamile Sabatini-Marques, Tan Yigitcanlar, Maria José Baldessar, Surabhi Pancholi. Mapping hybrid cities through location-based technologies: A systematic review of the literature. Cities. 2021; 116 ():103296.

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Laryssa Tarachucky; Jamile Sabatini-Marques; Tan Yigitcanlar; Maria José Baldessar; Surabhi Pancholi. 2021. "Mapping hybrid cities through location-based technologies: A systematic review of the literature." Cities 116, no. : 103296.

Earlycite article
Published: 01 June 2021 in Management Decision
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Purpose First, the key vulnerability factors from the literature are identified. Second, using the vulnerability factors as indicators, a composite index is developed. Last, from the index values, a set of vulnerability knowledge maps, showing the vulnerability hotspots, are prepared. Design/methodology/approach This study aims to develop a pandemic vulnerability knowledge visualisation index to support the strategic decision-making efforts of authorities. Findings Ten indicators are identified as vulnerability factors that could significantly impact the virus spread risks. Verifying the identified hotspots against the recorded infected cases and deaths has evidenced the usefulness of the index. Determining and visualising the high-vulnerability locations and communities could help in informed strategic decision-making and responses of the authorities to the pandemic. Originality/value The study demonstrates that the developed pandemic vulnerability knowledge visualisation index is particularly appropriate in the context of Australia. Nonetheless, by replicating the methodologic steps of the study, customised versions can be developed for other country contexts.

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Tan Yigitcanlar; Nayomi Kankanamge; Tommi Inkinen; Luke Butler; Alexander Preston; Maqsood Rezayee; Palvinderjit Gill; Mahsan Ostadnia; Giuseppe Ioppolo; Mahanama Senevirathne. Pandemic vulnerability knowledge visualisation for strategic decision-making: a COVID-19 index for government response in Australia. Management Decision 2021, ahead-of-p, 1 .

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Tan Yigitcanlar, Nayomi Kankanamge, Tommi Inkinen, Luke Butler, Alexander Preston, Maqsood Rezayee, Palvinderjit Gill, Mahsan Ostadnia, Giuseppe Ioppolo, Mahanama Senevirathne. Pandemic vulnerability knowledge visualisation for strategic decision-making: a COVID-19 index for government response in Australia. Management Decision. 2021; ahead-of-p (ahead-of-p):1.

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Tan Yigitcanlar; Nayomi Kankanamge; Tommi Inkinen; Luke Butler; Alexander Preston; Maqsood Rezayee; Palvinderjit Gill; Mahsan Ostadnia; Giuseppe Ioppolo; Mahanama Senevirathne. 2021. "Pandemic vulnerability knowledge visualisation for strategic decision-making: a COVID-19 index for government response in Australia." Management Decision ahead-of-p, no. ahead-of-p: 1.

Journal article
Published: 27 May 2021 in Sustainability
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Digital technologies engaged in urban metabolism for efficiency provide policymakers, urban managers, and planners with useful instruments to collect, monitor, analyze, and evaluate the circularity of environmental, social, and economic resources to improve their effectiveness and quality. At present, the digital technology-based approach is strategic for circular cities engaged in the development of smart and sustainable actions in the fields of mobility, energy, environment, waste, telecommunications, and security. Through the ‘Circular Resource Efficiency Management Framework’ developed by the European Commission, this paper generates insights into the digitalization practices of the circularity of urban metabolism by analyzing the initiatives implemented by the municipalities of Kaunas, Flanders region, Porto, Prato, The Hague, and Oslo, which constitute the Partnership on Circular Economy (PCE) of the Urban Agenda of the European Union. The results of the analysis provide a wide range of practices such as real-time monitoring stations for water and energy consumption, digital cameras for controlling vehicle flows, web platforms for sharing goods and services, and tracking sensors for public transport, which aim to optimize the efficiency of the circularity of urban metabolic flows. This study increases the understanding and awareness of digital technologies in this paradigm shift.

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Gaspare D’Amico; Roberta Arbolino; Lei Shi; Tan Yigitcanlar; Giuseppe Ioppolo. Digital Technologies for Urban Metabolism Efficiency: Lessons from Urban Agenda Partnership on Circular Economy. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6043 .

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Gaspare D’Amico, Roberta Arbolino, Lei Shi, Tan Yigitcanlar, Giuseppe Ioppolo. Digital Technologies for Urban Metabolism Efficiency: Lessons from Urban Agenda Partnership on Circular Economy. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (11):6043.

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Gaspare D’Amico; Roberta Arbolino; Lei Shi; Tan Yigitcanlar; Giuseppe Ioppolo. 2021. "Digital Technologies for Urban Metabolism Efficiency: Lessons from Urban Agenda Partnership on Circular Economy." Sustainability 13, no. 11: 6043.

Journal article
Published: 24 April 2021 in Sensors
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Digital societies could be characterized by their increasing desire to express themselves and interact with others. This is being realized through digital platforms such as social media that have increasingly become convenient and inexpensive sensors compared to physical sensors in many sectors of smart societies. One such major sector is road transportation, which is the backbone of modern economies and costs globally 1.25 million deaths and 50 million human injuries annually. The cutting-edge on big data-enabled social media analytics for transportation-related studies is limited. This paper brings a range of technologies together to detect road traffic-related events using big data and distributed machine learning. The most specific contribution of this research is an automatic labelling method for machine learning-based traffic-related event detection from Twitter data in the Arabic language. The proposed method has been implemented in a software tool called Iktishaf+ (an Arabic word meaning discovery) that is able to detect traffic events automatically from tweets in the Arabic language using distributed machine learning over Apache Spark. The tool is built using nine components and a range of technologies including Apache Spark, Parquet, and MongoDB. Iktishaf+ uses a light stemmer for the Arabic language developed by us. We also use in this work a location extractor developed by us that allows us to extract and visualize spatio-temporal information about the detected events. The specific data used in this work comprises 33.5 million tweets collected from Saudi Arabia using the Twitter API. Using support vector machines, naïve Bayes, and logistic regression-based classifiers, we are able to detect and validate several real events in Saudi Arabia without prior knowledge, including a fire in Jeddah, rains in Makkah, and an accident in Riyadh. The findings show the effectiveness of Twitter media in detecting important events with no prior knowledge about them.

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Ebtesam Alomari; Iyad Katib; Aiiad Albeshri; Tan Yigitcanlar; Rashid Mehmood. Iktishaf+: A Big Data Tool with Automatic Labeling for Road Traffic Social Sensing and Event Detection Using Distributed Machine Learning. Sensors 2021, 21, 2993 .

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Ebtesam Alomari, Iyad Katib, Aiiad Albeshri, Tan Yigitcanlar, Rashid Mehmood. Iktishaf+: A Big Data Tool with Automatic Labeling for Road Traffic Social Sensing and Event Detection Using Distributed Machine Learning. Sensors. 2021; 21 (9):2993.

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Ebtesam Alomari; Iyad Katib; Aiiad Albeshri; Tan Yigitcanlar; Rashid Mehmood. 2021. "Iktishaf+: A Big Data Tool with Automatic Labeling for Road Traffic Social Sensing and Event Detection Using Distributed Machine Learning." Sensors 21, no. 9: 2993.

Journal article
Published: 24 March 2021 in Electronics
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A smart city is an environment that uses innovative technologies to make networks and services more flexible, effective, and sustainable with the use of information, digital, and telecommunication technologies, improving the city’s operations for the benefit of its citizens. Most cities incorporate data acquisition elements from their own systems or those managed by subcontracted companies that can be used to optimise their resources: energy consumption, smart meters, lighting, irrigation water consumption, traffic data, camera images, waste collection, security systems, pollution meters, climate data, etc. The city-as-a-platform concept is becoming popular and it is increasingly evident that cities must have efficient management systems capable of deploying, for instance, IoT platforms, open data, etc., and of using artificial intelligence intensively. For many cities, data collection is not a problem, but managing and analysing data with the aim of optimising resources and improving the lives of citizens is. This article presents deepint.net, a platform for capturing, integrating, analysing, and creating dashboards, alert systems, optimisation models, etc. This article shows how deepint.net has been used to estimate pedestrian traffic on the streets of Melbourne (Australia) using the XGBoost algorithm. Given the current situation, it is advisable not to transit urban roads when overcrowded, thus, the model proposed in this paper (and implemented with deepint.net) facilitates the identification of areas with less pedestrian traffic. This use case is an example of an efficient crowd management system, implemented and operated via a platform that offers many possibilities for the management of the data collected in smart territories and cities.

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David Garcia-Retuerta; Pablo Chamoso; Guillermo Hernández; Agustín Guzmán; Tan Yigitcanlar; Juan Corchado. An Efficient Management Platform for Developing Smart Cities: Solution for Real-Time and Future Crowd Detection. Electronics 2021, 10, 765 .

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David Garcia-Retuerta, Pablo Chamoso, Guillermo Hernández, Agustín Guzmán, Tan Yigitcanlar, Juan Corchado. An Efficient Management Platform for Developing Smart Cities: Solution for Real-Time and Future Crowd Detection. Electronics. 2021; 10 (7):765.

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David Garcia-Retuerta; Pablo Chamoso; Guillermo Hernández; Agustín Guzmán; Tan Yigitcanlar; Juan Corchado. 2021. "An Efficient Management Platform for Developing Smart Cities: Solution for Real-Time and Future Crowd Detection." Electronics 10, no. 7: 765.

Review article
Published: 22 March 2021 in Sustainable Cities and Society
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Policy and technology responses to increased temperatures in urban heat islands (UHIs) are discussed in a variety of research; however, their interaction is overlooked and understudied. This is an important oversight because policy and technology are often developed in isolation of each other and not in conjunction. Therefore, they have limited synergistic effects when aimed at solving global issues. To examine this aspect, we conducted a systematic literature review and synthesised 97 articles to create a conceptual structuring of the topic. We identified the following categories: (a) evidence base for policymaking including timescale analysis, effective policymaking instruments as well as decision support and scenario planning; (b) policy responses including landscape and urban form, green and blue area ratio, albedo enhancement policies, transport modal split as well as public health and participation; (c) passive technologies including green building envelopes and development of cool surfaces; and (d) active technologies including sustainable transport as well as energy consumption, heating, ventilation and air conditioning, and waste heat. Based on the findings, we present a framework to guide future research in analysing UHI policy and technology responses more effectively in conjunction with each other.

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Kenan Degirmenci; Kevin C. Desouza; Walter Fieuw; Richard T. Watson; Tan Yigitcanlar. Understanding policy and technology responses in mitigating urban heat islands: A literature review and directions for future research. Sustainable Cities and Society 2021, 70, 102873 .

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Kenan Degirmenci, Kevin C. Desouza, Walter Fieuw, Richard T. Watson, Tan Yigitcanlar. Understanding policy and technology responses in mitigating urban heat islands: A literature review and directions for future research. Sustainable Cities and Society. 2021; 70 ():102873.

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Kenan Degirmenci; Kevin C. Desouza; Walter Fieuw; Richard T. Watson; Tan Yigitcanlar. 2021. "Understanding policy and technology responses in mitigating urban heat islands: A literature review and directions for future research." Sustainable Cities and Society 70, no. : 102873.

Journal article
Published: 01 March 2021 in Journal of Urban Technology
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Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are quickly becoming part of our transportation systems, and their use is largely dependent on public perceptions. The objective of this study was to evaluate perceptions of CAVs. Specifically, understanding the differences between people who have ridden a CAV in downtown Las Vegas (shuttle-rider survey) versus those who have not (general survey) yet. Two different survey questionnaires were used to collect data that was analyzed by using penalized logistic regression. Results suggest that people who had exposure to CAVs feel more positively about CAVs. Similarly, young, highly educated, males feel more positively about CAVs than their respective counterparts.

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Sarah Dennis; Alexander Paz; Tan Yigitcanlar. Perceptions and Attitudes Towards the Deployment of Autonomous and Connected Vehicles: Insights from Las Vegas, Nevada. Journal of Urban Technology 2021, 1 -21.

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Sarah Dennis, Alexander Paz, Tan Yigitcanlar. Perceptions and Attitudes Towards the Deployment of Autonomous and Connected Vehicles: Insights from Las Vegas, Nevada. Journal of Urban Technology. 2021; ():1-21.

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Sarah Dennis; Alexander Paz; Tan Yigitcanlar. 2021. "Perceptions and Attitudes Towards the Deployment of Autonomous and Connected Vehicles: Insights from Las Vegas, Nevada." Journal of Urban Technology , no. : 1-21.

Perspective
Published: 24 February 2021 in Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity
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The urbanization problems we face may be alleviated using innovative digital technology. However, employing these technologies entails the risk of creating new urban problems and/or intensifying the old ones instead of alleviating them. Hence, in a world with immense technological opportunities and at the same time enormous urbanization challenges, it is critical to adopt the principles of responsible urban innovation. These principles assure the delivery of the desired urban outcomes and futures. We contribute to the existing responsible urban innovation discourse by focusing on local government artificial intelligence (AI) systems, providing a literature and practice overview, and a conceptual framework. In this perspective paper, we advocate for the need for balancing the costs, benefits, risks and impacts of developing, adopting, deploying and managing local government AI systems in order to achieve responsible urban innovation. The statements made in this perspective paper are based on a thorough review of the literature, research, developments, trends and applications carefully selected and analyzed by an expert team of investigators. This study provides new insights, develops a conceptual framework and identifies prospective research questions by placing local government AI systems under the microscope through the lens of responsible urban innovation. The presented overview and framework, along with the identified issues and research agenda, offer scholars prospective lines of research and development; where the outcomes of these future studies will help urban policymakers, managers and planners to better understand the crucial role played by local government AI systems in ensuring the achievement of responsible outcomes.

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Tan Yigitcanlar; Juan Corchado; Rashid Mehmood; Rita Li; Karen Mossberger; Kevin Desouza. Responsible Urban Innovation with Local Government Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 2021, 7, 71 .

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Tan Yigitcanlar, Juan Corchado, Rashid Mehmood, Rita Li, Karen Mossberger, Kevin Desouza. Responsible Urban Innovation with Local Government Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity. 2021; 7 (1):71.

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Tan Yigitcanlar; Juan Corchado; Rashid Mehmood; Rita Li; Karen Mossberger; Kevin Desouza. 2021. "Responsible Urban Innovation with Local Government Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda." Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 7, no. 1: 71.

Journal article
Published: 23 February 2021 in BMC Infectious Diseases
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Background Quality of life (QOL) is one of the major factors to assessing the health and wellbeing of People living with HIV (PLWH). Likewise, improved QOL is among the prominent goals of patient treatment. This study was conducted to investigate the QOL of PLWH in Kermanshah, Iran. Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted on 364 PLWH of Kermanshah between 2016 and 2017. Outpatients were selected as the sample through the convenience sampling method from HIV Positive Clients of Kermanshah Behavioral Diseases Counseling Center. The reasons for the selection of outpatients include: (a) some patients were substance users, homeless or did not have a fixed address to follow-up; (b) addresses and personal details that were registered on the first admission were incorrect or incomplete; (c) due to financial issues, some were forced to relocate frequently and were difficult to track; (d) some patients were convicts or prisoners, making it hard to find them after their release; (e) some of them were from other provinces, where managing access was not easy/possible. Data was collected using WHOQOL-HIV BREF questionnaire (Persian Version). Data also analyzed with STATA 14, and SPSS 23 using T-test and multiple regression. Results This study showed that mean (SD) age of PLWH was 40.21 (10.45) years. Females had better QOL than males except for spirituality, religion and personal beliefs. The gender differences disappeared in multivariate results. A significant association was observed between education and the independence, environment, and spirituality domains of QOL. In addition, being married was correlated with overall QOL, psychological and social relationships domains of QOL of PLWH. Drug use was a behavioral factor with negative influence on the QOL. Conclusion This study found that marital status and drug use were the main predictors of various domains of QOL. Drug use was a behavioral factor with a negative influence on the QOL. Hence, it is recommended that health professionals, planners, and policymakers take effective measures to improve the status quo.

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Nahid Khademi; Alireza Zanganeh; Shahram Saeidi; Raziyeh Teimouri; Mehdi Khezeli; Babak Jamshidi; Tan Yigitcanlar; Yahya Salimi; Ali Almasi; Kobra Gholami Kiaee. Quality of life of HIV-infected individuals: insights from a study of patients in Kermanshah, Iran. BMC Infectious Diseases 2021, 21, 1 -12.

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Nahid Khademi, Alireza Zanganeh, Shahram Saeidi, Raziyeh Teimouri, Mehdi Khezeli, Babak Jamshidi, Tan Yigitcanlar, Yahya Salimi, Ali Almasi, Kobra Gholami Kiaee. Quality of life of HIV-infected individuals: insights from a study of patients in Kermanshah, Iran. BMC Infectious Diseases. 2021; 21 (1):1-12.

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Nahid Khademi; Alireza Zanganeh; Shahram Saeidi; Raziyeh Teimouri; Mehdi Khezeli; Babak Jamshidi; Tan Yigitcanlar; Yahya Salimi; Ali Almasi; Kobra Gholami Kiaee. 2021. "Quality of life of HIV-infected individuals: insights from a study of patients in Kermanshah, Iran." BMC Infectious Diseases 21, no. 1: 1-12.

Review
Published: 04 January 2021 in Sustainability
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Despite the rhetoric of “citizen-first,” which has been tokenized in recent years by the smart city administrations, what it means has long been unclear to many, including the public at large. Put simply, this rhetoric concerns the mindset of the members of a local community and places them at the heart of the smart city initiatives. In order to bring further clarity to this issue under the current neoliberal urbanism, this study aimed to identify the key indicators of citizen-centric smart cities from the perspective of participative governance practices and citizens’ responsibilities. To achieve this aim, this study involved a systematic literature review of the social inclusion indicators for building citizen-centric smart cities. The social inclusion indicators that were formed were verified by practitioners to suit the local contexts of an emerging and developing country, in this case, Malaysia. The findings of the review revealed that: (a) the acceptance of social inclusion indicators was mainly limited to the realm of democratic developed countries, leaders’ understanding of citizenship, the delegation of decision-making power in governance practices, the participative culture of societies, and individual citizens’ self-discipline; (b) the social inclusion indicators may not be welcomed in emerging and developing countries; (c) in the long term, these indicators would shed light on the rise of self-organizing cities that will gain popularity in potential city developments, be it in developed or developing countries.

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Jalaluddin Malek; Seng Lim; Tan Yigitcanlar. Social Inclusion Indicators for Building Citizen-Centric Smart Cities: A Systematic Literature Review. Sustainability 2021, 13, 376 .

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Jalaluddin Malek, Seng Lim, Tan Yigitcanlar. Social Inclusion Indicators for Building Citizen-Centric Smart Cities: A Systematic Literature Review. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (1):376.

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Jalaluddin Malek; Seng Lim; Tan Yigitcanlar. 2021. "Social Inclusion Indicators for Building Citizen-Centric Smart Cities: A Systematic Literature Review." Sustainability 13, no. 1: 376.

Review
Published: 02 January 2021 in Land
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Since the advent of the second digital revolution, the exponential advancement of technology is shaping a world with new social, economic, political, technological, and legal circumstances. The consequential disruptions force governments and societies to seek ways for their cities to become more humane, ethical, inclusive, intelligent, and sustainable. In recent years, the concept of City-as-a-Platform was coined with the hope of providing an innovative approach for addressing the aforementioned disruptions. Today, this concept is rapidly gaining popularity, as more and more platform thinking applications become available to the city context—so-called platform urbanism. These platforms used for identifying and addressing various urbanization problems with the assistance of open data, participatory innovation opportunity, and collective knowledge. With these developments in mind, this study aims to tackle the question of “How can platform urbanism support local governance efforts in the development of smarter cities?” Through an integrative review of journal articles published during the last decade, the evolution of City-as-a-Platform was analyzed. The findings revealed the prospects and constraints for the realization of transformative and disruptive impacts on the government and society through the platform urbanism, along with disclosing the opportunities and challenges for smarter urban development governance with collective knowledge through platform urbanism.

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Palmyra Repette; Jamile Sabatini-Marques; Tan Yigitcanlar; Denilson Sell; Eduardo Costa. The Evolution of City-as-a-Platform: Smart Urban Development Governance with Collective Knowledge-Based Platform Urbanism. Land 2021, 10, 33 .

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Palmyra Repette, Jamile Sabatini-Marques, Tan Yigitcanlar, Denilson Sell, Eduardo Costa. The Evolution of City-as-a-Platform: Smart Urban Development Governance with Collective Knowledge-Based Platform Urbanism. Land. 2021; 10 (1):33.

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Palmyra Repette; Jamile Sabatini-Marques; Tan Yigitcanlar; Denilson Sell; Eduardo Costa. 2021. "The Evolution of City-as-a-Platform: Smart Urban Development Governance with Collective Knowledge-Based Platform Urbanism." Land 10, no. 1: 33.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2021 in Sensors
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This paper presents an efficient cyberphysical platform for the smart management of smart territories. It is efficient because it facilitates the implementation of data acquisition and data management methods, as well as data representation and dashboard configuration. The platform allows for the use of any type of data source, ranging from the measurements of a multi-functional IoT sensing devices to relational and non-relational databases. It is also smart because it incorporates a complete artificial intelligence suit for data analysis; it includes techniques for data classification, clustering, forecasting, optimization, visualization, etc. It is also compatible with the edge computing concept, allowing for the distribution of intelligence and the use of intelligent sensors. The concept of smart cities is evolving and adapting to new applications; the trend to create intelligent neighbourhoods, districts or territories is becoming increasingly popular, as opposed to the previous approach of managing an entire megacity. In this paper, the platform is presented, and its architecture and functionalities are described. Moreover, its operation has been validated in a case study where the bike renting service of Paris—Vélib’ Métropole has been managed. This platform could enable smart territories to develop adapted knowledge management systems, adapt them to new requirements and to use multiple types of data, and execute efficient computational and artificial intelligence algorithms. The platform optimizes the decisions taken by human experts through explainable artificial intelligence models that obtain data from IoT sensors, databases, the Internet, etc. The global intelligence of the platform could potentially coordinate its decision-making processes with intelligent nodes installed in the edge, which would use the most advanced data processing techniques.

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Juan Corchado; Pablo Chamoso; Guillermo Hernández; Agustín Roman Gutierrez; Alberto Camacho; Alfonso González-Briones; Francisco Pinto-Santos; Enrique Goyenechea; David Garcia-Retuerta; María Alonso-Miguel; Beatriz Hernandez; Diego Villaverde; Manuel Sanchez-Verdejo; Pablo Plaza-Martínez; Manuel López-Pérez; Sergio Manzano-García; Ricardo Alonso; Roberto Casado-Vara; Javier Tejedor; Fernando de la Prieta; Sara Rodríguez-González; Javier Parra-Domínguez; Mohd Mohamad; Saber Trabelsi; Enrique Díaz-Plaza; Jose Garcia-Coria; Tan Yigitcanlar; Paulo Novais; Sigeru Omatu. Deepint.net: A Rapid Deployment Platform for Smart Territories. Sensors 2021, 21, 236 .

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Juan Corchado, Pablo Chamoso, Guillermo Hernández, Agustín Roman Gutierrez, Alberto Camacho, Alfonso González-Briones, Francisco Pinto-Santos, Enrique Goyenechea, David Garcia-Retuerta, María Alonso-Miguel, Beatriz Hernandez, Diego Villaverde, Manuel Sanchez-Verdejo, Pablo Plaza-Martínez, Manuel López-Pérez, Sergio Manzano-García, Ricardo Alonso, Roberto Casado-Vara, Javier Tejedor, Fernando de la Prieta, Sara Rodríguez-González, Javier Parra-Domínguez, Mohd Mohamad, Saber Trabelsi, Enrique Díaz-Plaza, Jose Garcia-Coria, Tan Yigitcanlar, Paulo Novais, Sigeru Omatu. Deepint.net: A Rapid Deployment Platform for Smart Territories. Sensors. 2021; 21 (1):236.

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Juan Corchado; Pablo Chamoso; Guillermo Hernández; Agustín Roman Gutierrez; Alberto Camacho; Alfonso González-Briones; Francisco Pinto-Santos; Enrique Goyenechea; David Garcia-Retuerta; María Alonso-Miguel; Beatriz Hernandez; Diego Villaverde; Manuel Sanchez-Verdejo; Pablo Plaza-Martínez; Manuel López-Pérez; Sergio Manzano-García; Ricardo Alonso; Roberto Casado-Vara; Javier Tejedor; Fernando de la Prieta; Sara Rodríguez-González; Javier Parra-Domínguez; Mohd Mohamad; Saber Trabelsi; Enrique Díaz-Plaza; Jose Garcia-Coria; Tan Yigitcanlar; Paulo Novais; Sigeru Omatu. 2021. "Deepint.net: A Rapid Deployment Platform for Smart Territories." Sensors 21, no. 1: 236.

Perspective
Published: 15 December 2020 in Sustainability
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The COVID-19 pandemic has made many urban policymakers, planners, and scholars, all around the globe, rethink conventional, neoliberal growth strategies of cities. The trend of rapid urbanization, particularly around capital cities, has been questioned, and alternative growth models and locations have been the subjects of countless discussions. This is particularly the case for the Australian context: The COVID-19 pandemic heightened the debates in urban circles on post-pandemic urban growth strategies and boosting the growth of towns and cities across regional Australia is a popular alternative strategy. While some scholars argue that regional Australia poses an invaluable opportunity for post-pandemic growth by ‘taking off the pressure from the capital cities’; others warn us about the risks of growing regional towns and cities without carefully designed national, regional, and local planning, design, and development strategies. Superimposing planning and development policies meant for metropolitan cities could simply result in transferring the ills of capital cities to regions and exacerbate unsustainable development and heightened socioeconomic inequalities. This opinion piece, by keeping both of these perspectives in mind, explores approaches to regional community and economic development of Australia’s towns and cities, along with identifying sustainable urban growth locations in the post-pandemic era. It also offers new insights that could help re-shape the policy debate on regional growth and development.

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Mirko Guaralda; Greg Hearn; Marcus Foth; Tan Yigitcanlar; Severine Mayere; Lisa Law. Towards Australian Regional Turnaround: Insights into Sustainably Accommodating Post-Pandemic Urban Growth in Regional Towns and Cities. Sustainability 2020, 12, 10492 .

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Mirko Guaralda, Greg Hearn, Marcus Foth, Tan Yigitcanlar, Severine Mayere, Lisa Law. Towards Australian Regional Turnaround: Insights into Sustainably Accommodating Post-Pandemic Urban Growth in Regional Towns and Cities. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (24):10492.

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Mirko Guaralda; Greg Hearn; Marcus Foth; Tan Yigitcanlar; Severine Mayere; Lisa Law. 2020. "Towards Australian Regional Turnaround: Insights into Sustainably Accommodating Post-Pandemic Urban Growth in Regional Towns and Cities." Sustainability 12, no. 24: 10492.

Journal article
Published: 11 December 2020 in Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful technology with an increasing popularity and applications in areas ranging from marketing to banking and finance, from agriculture to healthcare and security, from space exploration to robotics and transport, and from chatbots to artificial creativity and manufacturing. Although many of these areas closely relate to the urban context, there is limited understanding of the trending AI technologies and their application areas—or concepts—in the urban planning and development fields. Similarly, there is a knowledge gap in how the public perceives AI technologies, their application areas, and the AI-related policies and practices of our cities. This study aims to advance our understanding of the relationship between the key AI technologies (n = 15) and their key application areas (n = 16) in urban planning and development. To this end, this study examines public perceptions of how AI technologies and their application areas in urban planning and development are perceived and utilized in the testbed case study of Australian states and territories. The methodological approach of this study employs the social media analytics method, and conducts sentiment and content analyses of location-based Twitter messages (n = 11,236) from Australia. The results disclose that: (a) digital transformation, innovation, and sustainability are the most popular AI application areas in urban planning and development; (b) drones, automation, robotics, and big data are the most popular AI technologies utilized in urban planning and development, and; (c) achieving the digital transformation and sustainability of cities through the use of AI technologies—such as big data, automation and robotics—is the central community discussion topic.

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Tan Yigitcanlar; Nayomi Kankanamge; Massimo Regona; Andres Maldonado; Bridget Rowan; Alex Ryu; Kevin C. DeSouza; Juan M. Corchado; Rashid Mehmood; Rita Yi Man Li. Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Related Urban Planning and Development Concepts: How Are They Perceived and Utilized in Australia? Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 2020, 6, 187 .

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Tan Yigitcanlar, Nayomi Kankanamge, Massimo Regona, Andres Maldonado, Bridget Rowan, Alex Ryu, Kevin C. DeSouza, Juan M. Corchado, Rashid Mehmood, Rita Yi Man Li. Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Related Urban Planning and Development Concepts: How Are They Perceived and Utilized in Australia? Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity. 2020; 6 (4):187.

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Tan Yigitcanlar; Nayomi Kankanamge; Massimo Regona; Andres Maldonado; Bridget Rowan; Alex Ryu; Kevin C. DeSouza; Juan M. Corchado; Rashid Mehmood; Rita Yi Man Li. 2020. "Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Related Urban Planning and Development Concepts: How Are They Perceived and Utilized in Australia?" Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 6, no. 4: 187.

Journal article
Published: 08 December 2020 in Housing Policy Debate
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Tan Yigitcanlar. Smart City Beyond Efficiency: Technology–Policy–Community at Play for Sustainable Urban Futures. Housing Policy Debate 2020, 31, 88 -92.

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Tan Yigitcanlar. Smart City Beyond Efficiency: Technology–Policy–Community at Play for Sustainable Urban Futures. Housing Policy Debate. 2020; 31 (1):88-92.

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Tan Yigitcanlar. 2020. "Smart City Beyond Efficiency: Technology–Policy–Community at Play for Sustainable Urban Futures." Housing Policy Debate 31, no. 1: 88-92.