Smart city technologies are criticized because they might exacerbate income inequalities. Four factors suggested to explain this phenomenon: the uneven diffusion of information and communication (ICTs); that these ICTs cannot be afforded by low-income citizens; smart cities could further human capital divides; involvement private actors in implementation projects. These critiques not based on e...

This paper aims to show that smart cities are an alternative for the process of sustainable political, economic, social and environmental transformation. Surveys city rankings indexes were carried out verify which standing in certain dimensions. It was found blockchain technology enables very good results articulation autopoietic, self-regulating city. In collecting data on degree applicability...

World urbanization is an important process: it predicted that by 2050 about 64% of the developing world and 86% developed will be urbanized [...]