Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques

The talk with present the key results of the IPCC Working Group III 5th assessment report. Concluding four years of intense scientific collaboration by hundreds of authors from around the world, the report responds to the request of the world's governments for a comprehensive, objective and policy neutral assessment of the current scientific knowledge on mitigating climate change. The report has been extensively reviewed by experts and governments to ensure quality and comprehensiveness.

Climate change 2014 - Mitigation of climate change

The theory of affordances

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Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches

The Rise of the Creative Class

This paper reports on the first two decades of research on smart cities by conducting a bibliometric analysis of the literature published between 1992 and 2012. The analysis shows that smart-city r...

The First Two Decades of Smart-City Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

Strategic principles for smart city development: A multiple case study analysis of European best practices

Combining co-citation clustering and text-based analysis to reveal the main development paths of smart cities

This paper analyses the ‘big picture’ of the smart city research field by means of a bibliometric analysis of the literature on smart cities produced between 1992 and 2012. The findings show that this new field of scientific inquiry has started to grow significantly only in recent years, mainly thanks to European universities and US companies. Its intellectual structure is complex and lacks cohesion due to the infinite possible combinations among the building blocks and components characterising the smart city concept. However, despite this complexity, the bibliometric analysis made it possible to identify three structural axes that traverse the literature, capture the main research perspectives, and reveal some key aspects of this new city planning and development paradigm.

Exploring the big picture of smart city research

This exploratory study has been carried out to better understand the development process of strategies that allow large European cities to become smart. This aim is achieved through the analysis of the Amsterdam’s smart city strategy. By using case study research with a descriptive approach, the activities undertaken during the implementation of this successful initiative have been mapped and organized in a step-by-step roadmap. This made it possible to obtain a detailed description of the entire development process, useful knowledge to consider for other similar initiatives, and a conceptual framework for future comparative research. All these results will support the construction of a holistic and empirically valid theory able to explain how to build effective smart city strategies in this type of urban area.

Luca Mora

Papers

The First Two Decades of Smart-City Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

Strategic principles for smart city development: A multiple case study analysis of European best practices

Combining co-citation clustering and text-based analysis to reveal the main development paths of smart cities

Exploring the big picture of smart city research

How to become a Smart City: Learning from Amsterdam