This book reviews the structure, applications, technologies, governance, environmental sustainability, smart communities, gender space and other issues related to smart cities. The book is divided into four parts. The first one entails the conceptual background, growth and development. The second part presents diverse issues on smart cities in terms of environmental sustainability, the role of the community, and gender space, among others. The third part revolves around economic and technological issues, and the fourth is a compilation of case studies in connection with smart cities. This collection of diverse issues from different locations presents a holistic view of smart cities contributed by authors who have undertaken research projects and implemented their own unique perspectives and methods. A variety of innovative concepts such as digital governance, polycentric structures, geodata repositories, geoweb services and advanced geospatial technologies in smart city planning, urbanmicroclimatic parameters, and urban heat islands provide invaluable knowledge for researchers and practitioners in these fields.

Smart Cities for Sustainable Development : An Introduction.- Monocentric City Plans to Polycentric Structures.- Intelligent Communities - Towards a New Ontology of Practice.- Digital Governance for Smart City and Future Community Construction: From Concept to Application.- Smart cities or Smart People: The Role of Stakeholders to Achieve Integrative Vision.- Smart City Initiatives in Japan: Their Achievements and Remaining Issues.- Smart Cities and Urban Deprived Communities: A Reflection on the Need to Re-think.- Environmental Sustainability of Smart Cities: Cues from Ebenezer Howard's Garden City Movement.- Linking Sustainability of Smart Cities to Education and Health: A Study in Smart City Mission, India.- Celebration of Public Festivals Towards Sustainable Development: A Perceptual Study.- Gendered Spaces: A Spatial Perspective of Women's Fear of Violence and Smart Cities Rhetoric.- Crowdsourcing for Sustainable Smart Cities and their ICT Practices.- Online Geodata Repositories, Geoweb Services and Emerging Geospatial Technologies in Smart City Planning.- Assessment of Urban Microclimatic Parameters in Various Urban Landscape Settings using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).- Foreign Investment in Energy - Mix: An Assessment of Sustainable Indian Cities.- Understanding Economic Activities of Smart and Amrut Cities of Telangana State.- Urban Heat Island (UHI) Assessment using the Satellite Data: A Case Study of Varanasi city, India.- SWOT Analysis to Determine the Feasibility for Guwahati Smart City in North East India.- Smart City Surat: A Case Study for Urban Health System and Climate Resilience.- Industrial Pollution and Soil Quality: A Case Study from Industrial Area, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.- Analyzing Urban Extension and Land Use Changes in Kalimpong Municipality, West Bengal Using Remote Sensing and GIS.- A Comparative Analysis of Emerging Water Consumption Pattern in Indian Smart Cities.