A Nordic Smart Sustainable City

A Nordic Smart Sustainable City: Lessons from Theory and Practice presents an overview of current approaches in a readable format for practitioners and administrators in municipalities and related businesses, for researchers, academics, educators, students, and stakeholders.

Barbara Maria Sageidet is a professor of natural science in the Department of Early Childhood Teacher Education at the University of Stavanger (UiS). She has a PhD in soil and environmental sciences from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Ås, related to paleoecology and soil micromorphology. Her research relates to natural science, natural science didactics and sustainability in kindergarten and environmental citizenship, with interests in environmental and soil literacy, urban gardens, and urban childhood. Daniela Müller-Eie is a professor of city and regional planning in the Department of Safety, Economics, and Planning at the University of Stavanger and holds a PhD in architecture/urban sustainability from Glasgow University. Her research generally focuses on the interaction between the physical environment, planning measures, socio-cultural conditions and psychological factors. More specifically, she studies sustainable urban mobility and travel behaviour and related incentives. Kristiane M.F. Lindland is a research manager for climate, environment and sustainability in the division for Health and Society at NORCE Research and holds a minor position as an associate professor in change management in the Department of Media and Social Sciences at the University of Stavanger. She holds a PhD in management from the University of Stavanger. Her research areas stretch from innovation, design, leadership, and organization to energy justice, citizen involvement and sustainability. What characterizes her approach to these themes is a relational and processual understanding of reality.

About the Editors. List of Contributors. Preface. Editorial Introduction. PART I: A SMART CITY AND A SMART SUSTAINABLE CITIES RESEARCH NETWORK. 1) From European sprat to European smart: How the fishing town of Stavanger became a Smart City Lighthouse. 2) Smartening Stavanger - Reflections on interdisciplinary and intra-regional collaboration. PART II: THE CONCEPTUAL SMART CITY. 3) Tensions and opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration in smart city work. 4) Transformative agency in urban experimentation: the role of intermediaries and boundary spanners. 5) A pragmatist approach to the smart city concept and practice. 6) Towards the Streetsmart City: A research and planning agenda for inclusive cities. 7) Conceptual barriers to integrating smart and sustainable mobility planning. 8) Addressing cyber-physical challenges for critical infrastructures in smart cities through integrating organizational processes for safety and security management. 9) Streetwise in the artistic city: Jazz, Beats, Hugs and Bugs. PART III: THE LIVED SMART CITY. 10) Implementation of the smart city concept in Stavanger municipality - From a global idea to local practice. 11) Enabling the future smart cities: AI-based orchestration of 5G and beyond. 12) Data accessibility for researchers in smart cities: A literature review and case study about access to consumer energy data in Norway. 13) Barriers, motivators, and smart solutions for promoting commute cycling in Stavanger. 14) Developing children's understanding of their complex urban environment - Some Stavanger kindergarten's awareness of air quality. 15) Making art smart. PART IV: LESSONS LEARNED. 16) Lessons learned from a living smart city. Index.