Contemporary and future cities are often labeled as “smart cities,” “digital cities” or “ubiquitous cities,” “knowledge cities,” and “creative cities.” Informational urbanism includes all aspects of information and (tacit as well as explicit) knowledge with regard to urban regions. “Informational city” (or “smart city” in a broader sense) is an umbrella term uniting the divergent trends of info...

To determine why North Americans tend to locate European cities south of North American cities at similar latitudes (Tversky, 1981), we had observers provide bearing estimates between cities in the U.S. and Europe. Earlier research using latitude estimates of these cities has indicated that each continent has several subjective regions (Friedman & Brown, 2000a). Participants judged cities from ...

Over the past several years, as cities in the United States have faced increasing fiscal pressures, there has been a reinvigorated interest in the promise of smart cities, intelligent cities, digital cities, open source cities and media cities, which advocate the use of digital technologies to make cities more efficient, productive, innovative and attractive. However, the appropriation and use ...

To achieve net-zero emissions economy, the transition to online entertainment and retail, aging populations, urban population growth, pressures on public finance have created huge interests for human run cities differently smartly. A term titled smart city is which considered as an idealistic city, where quality of life citizens greatly improved by utilizing information communication technology...

Based on the panel data of 92 prefecture-level cities in five major urban agglomerations from 2010 to 2019, and taking 2015 Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Coordinated Development Planning Outline as quasi-natural experiment, evaluating impact coordinated development green total factor productivity by using synthetic control method. The study found that has a significant promoting effect productivity; po...

Water pollution exhibits distinct negative externalities, necessitating trans-regional collaborative governance among basin governments. However, few studies have examined the structural features of water collaboration networks local governments in China from a spatial analysis perspective. This study focuses on 27 central cities Yangtze River Delta, collecting 109 policy texts and evidence coo...

Informational cities are prototypical cities of the knowledge society. If they are informational world cities, they are new centers of power. According to Manuel Castells (1989), in those cities space of flows (flows of money, power, and information) tend to override space of places. Information and communication technology infrastructures, cognitive infrastructures (as groundwork of knowledge ...