Nicos Komninos is Professor of Urban Development and Innovation Policy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and Digital Spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks (Routledge 2008). Together these books examine intelligent cities as environments of innovation and collaborative problem-solving. In this final book, the focus is on planning, strategy and governance of intelligent cities.

Part I. What makes cities intelligent. Drivers of spatial intelligence of cities 1. Intelligent cities smart cities: the landscape 2. Intelligent city strategies: Innovation through multi-layer knowledge functions 3. Smart cities, smart environments and big data: innovation ecosystems of embedded spatial intelligence 4. Alternative architectures of spatial intelligence: pathways to innovation Part II. Planning for intelligent cities. Connecting bottom-up and top down perspectives 5. Intelligent cities and the bottom-up regeneration of metropolitan areas 6. Top-down planning for new intelligent cities and city-districts 7. Strategic planning for intelligent cities: a roadmap across spaces and stages Part III. Strategies and governance. Innovation-for-all into smart environments 8. Toward intelligent clusters and city-districts: platforms for self-organising growth 9. Innovation-for-all companies into smart environments: building own innovation ecosystems 10. Smart city infrastructure: Applications and solutions each city should have 11. Governance of intelligent city ecosystems: communities, knowledge architectures, and innovation cycles