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Several historic Indian cities have managed to retain the original urban character by using readily available materials, craftspeople, and cultural traditions despite increasing urban transformations. This notion of sustaining/preserving/continuing certain cultural elements and rituals has survived in various forms in the last two centuries. Historic cities showcase their living heritage at the global level and are exemplars for studying the strong linkages within traditions and indigenous modes of preservation. In such situations where stakeholders have centuries of association with the site, it is essential that professionals look beyond conventional solutions to better understand local perceptions and thereby establish the appropriateness of any urban level interventions.

This article draws from various urban conservation works carried out in the historic cities of Rajasthan over the last two decades. It illustrates the discoveries and challenges in understanding the traditional local mindset for working in such areas. The indigenous methods practiced in these historic living cores are often at variance with the norms and logics of Western city planning being followed in post-colonial India. Examples in the cities and settlements of Jaipur, Udaipur and Ajmer, feature in this article, highlighting the urgent need to understand the local community mindset and the Indian approach to solutions for rapidly modernizing historic urban centres.

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Structure -- Authorship -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Section1 -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Evolution -- Chapter 3 The Smart revolution -- Chapter 4 Living in the Smarter world -- Section2 -- Chapter 5 Smart @ Live -- Chapter 6 What is making us Smart -- Chapter 7 Constituents of the Smart world -- Section3 -- Chapter 8 Unplugging Smart cities -- Chapter 9 Plugging Smart cities -- Section4 -- Chapter 10 How Smart do we want? -- Chapter 11 Doing it right -- Chapter 12 The grand design -- Section5 -- Chapter 13 The economics of a Smart city -- Chapter 14 The new world order -- Section6 -- Chapter 15 Life is good -- Footnote -- References -- About the Author

© 27th European Conference on Information Systems - Information Systems for a Sharing Society, ECIS 2019. All rights reserved. The smart city concept is used as tool by local and municipal governments to deliver benefits relating to people, government, economy, mobility, environment and living. By embedding technologies and the internet of things in the city's infrastructure, smart cities aim to generate insights that drive local improvements and accrue to a global level. The smart city is also viewed as a transformative lever for government. As cities move beyond smart city pilot showcasing projects, they face the challenge of embedding smart city initiatives in business-as-usual. Despite ambitious goals and high stakes, little is known about the work that leaders perform in undertaking this transformation. This study explored the leadership practice of smart city leaders in Denmark, Holland, USA, Australia and New Zealand. We focus on how leaders drive transformation from showcasing to becoming a sustainable smart city, and the challenges faced. As result we present a framework of six barriers to overcome and five enacted leadership roles to transform the city of today to a future sustainable smart city. We use institutional logics as a lens to discuss and explain the challenges faced by city leaders and their critical role as innovation agents and boundary spanners in smart city transformation.

The Baltic Sea is increasingly becoming a living laboratory for rapid prototyping and testing solutions from cleaner and safer shipping to remote and autonomous navigation. The maritime industry in Finland is rapidly undergoing digital transformation to make activities at sea smarter. A Smart Sea can be understood as an ecosystem across city and sea interface in which businesses, knowledge institutions, citizens, municipal agencies and government collaborate towards shared situational awareness and create value in multiple dimensions – economic, social and environmental. This article presents Smart Sea implementation journey in Finnish public sector through notable improvements and setbacks, and identifies larger transformation effects for the society.

In order to be acknowledged as a World Heritage Centre by UNESCO in 2016, the city government transformed Sawahlunto, which used to be an old mining city, into what the government claimed as a culturally touristic mining city. The city had basically been declared as a dead city; however, the government has strategically increased its economics through tourism. This article focuses on the meaning-making process in the construction of the city image(s) basing the process in the discussion of the politics of collective memory and cultural heritage. Data, mainly findings from observations, interviews and textual analysis, were collected from two tourism sites namely Goedang Ransoem Museum and Lubang Tambang Mbah Soero. The aim of the research is to interpret how the people in Sawahlunto make sense of the image construction of the city or even contest it as the government conveyed particular meaning in redefining the city"s identity. Abidin Kusno"s conceptualization of collective memory in architecture is mainly used to analyze the architectural elements of the two tourism sites. Furthermore, the analysis also refers to Hobsbawn and Thompson"s notion of cultural heritage and Leif Edvinson"s images of the city. Research findings reveal that the city government constructs a dominant meaning of what they convey as cultural heritage by utilizing local laws and the authority from other regions which have more experiences in transforming their city into a city of cultural heritage. On the other hand, the people in Sawahlunto have their own understanding of what their city means for them in relation to their own cultural heritage. All in all, the complexity of the meaning-makitng process in the city"s transformation between the government and the people could be read as a battleground of contesting discourses.

"This title takes the broadest possible scope to interrogate the emergence of "platform urbanism", examining how it transforms urban infrastructure, governance, knowledge production, and everyday life, and brings together leading scholars and early-career researchers from across five continents and multiple disciplines. It will be invaluable to students and academics in anthropology, geography, innovation studies, politics, public policy, sociology, and urban studies, as well as city and regional planners, policymakers, and third-sector researchers in citizen engagement, industrial strategy, regeneration, sustainable development, and transport"--

The World Design Capital (WDC) is a global city promotion project that praises achievements in cities that use design as a fundamental tool to reshape the cityscape, while improving the quality of life for its citizens within the respect of sustainability and diversity. Facing complex challenges of urbanization and globalization, Taipei City, Taiwan, is seeking cultural, educational, and industrial breakthroughs and innovations in order to improve societal quality of life and become a WDC. This study introduces the preparation process from the human resource group of the Taipei city government and proposes promising initiatives and strategic actions based on the Kano two-dimensional quality model. Taipei City is committed to leveraging the power of design to inspire its citizens to reshape and rejuvenate the Taiwanese society through three major initiatives: &lsquo ; Creative Thinking for K-12&rsquo ; (educational initiatives), &lsquo ; Designers Everywhere&rsquo ; (cultural initiatives) and &lsquo ; Healthy Design Industry&rsquo ; (industrial initiatives). This paper determines specific strategic actions for each major initiative. From sustainable development perspectives in society, to future challenges, problems, and opportunities are also discussed in the study. It is expected that lessons from this transformation can introduce creativity into citizens&rsquo ; lives, improve societal quality of life, and thus benefit other cities.