Smart Cities Deconstructed

Explore smart city designs with this primer for business, technology, and city executives, featuring cases studies from India and China


If you're a business or municipal leader, this is your opportunity to explore smart city designs and see how they're being executed in the real world. With its approachable perspective, A Practical Guide to Global Smart Cities serves as your smart city primer.


Focusing on the development efforts for smart city designs in China and India, this guide shares urban development visions, which are designed to securely integrate information, the Internet of Things, and communications technology for cities. You can learn how a smart city design can enhance management of a city's assets, including local department information systems, schools, libraries, transportation systems, hospitals, power plants, water supply networks, waste management, law enforcement, and other community services. Additionally, this guide explains how the urban informatics and technology of an intelligent program could improve city services.





Get a simple, direct, and detailed description of the technologies being purchased by smart city programs, with case studies from India and China

See how cities make their technology purchasing decisions, in terms of the evaluation process, decision makers, and key advisors as well as procurement milestones

Explore the similarities and differences between Asian procurement processes and those in the West

Gain the insights, knowledge, and confidence to prepare for entry into the smart city programs of India.

Know who your collaborators or competitors might be



When you have this global guide as a reference, you can easily compare and contrast the smart system approaches of developing countries to those of industrialized countries from a governance and technology perspective. Start your exploration into the cities of the future today!