All Outputs (34)

Strategic Planning for Smart City Development: Assessing Spatial Inequalities in the Basic Service Provision of Metropolitan Cities (2020)
Journal Article
Du, M., Zhang, X., & Mora, L. (2021). Strategic Planning for Smart City Development: Assessing Spatial Inequalities in the Basic Service Provision of Metropolitan Cities. Journal of Urban Technology, 28(1-2), 115-134. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2020

Spatial inequality in basic service provision is a key challenge for smart city development strategies. With a focus on walkable accessibility, this paper proposes a new methodological approach to analyzing spatial inequalities in metropolitan cities... Read More about Strategic Planning for Smart City Development: Assessing Spatial Inequalities in the Basic Service Provision of Metropolitan Cities.

Mind the Gap: Developments in Autonomous Driving Research and the Sustainability Challenge (2020)
Journal Article
Mora, L., Wu, X., & Panori, A. (2020). Mind the Gap: Developments in Autonomous Driving Research and the Sustainability Challenge. Journal of Cleaner Production, 275, Article 124087. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124087

Scientific knowledge on autonomous-driving technology is expanding at a faster-than-ever pace. As a result, the likelihood of incurring information overload is particularly notable for researchers, who can struggle to overcome the gap between informa... Read More about Mind the Gap: Developments in Autonomous Driving Research and the Sustainability Challenge.

The strategic, organizational, and entrepreneurial evolution of smart cities (2020)
Journal Article
Schiavone, F., Appio, F. P., Mora, L., & Risitano, M. (2020). The strategic, organizational, and entrepreneurial evolution of smart cities. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 16, 1155–1165 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-020-0

This present editorial illustrates the recent evolution of strategy, organization and entrepreneurship in smart city. Referring to strategy, integrated smart city strategies aim to connect the physical space of cities with the economic and social sph... Read More about The strategic, organizational, and entrepreneurial evolution of smart cities.

Smart Systems of Innovation for Smart Places: Challenges in Deploying Digital Platforms for Co-Creation and Data-Intelligence (2020)
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Panori, A., Kakderi, C., Komninos, N., Fellnhofer, K., Reid, A., & Mora, L. (2021). Smart Systems of Innovation for Smart Places: Challenges in Deploying Digital Platforms for Co-Creation and Data-Intelligence. Land Use Policy, 111, Article 104631. https:

The effect of digital transformation towards more efficient, place-based and bottom-up innovation policies at different spatial scales has proven significant, as digital technologies modify existing policy-design routines in cities and regions. Smart... Read More about Smart Systems of Innovation for Smart Places: Challenges in Deploying Digital Platforms for Co-Creation and Data-Intelligence.

Developing Synergies Between Social Entrepreneurship and Urban Planning: Evidence from Six European Cities (2020)
Journal Article
Margarita, A., & Mora, L. (2020). Developing Synergies Between Social Entrepreneurship and Urban Planning: Evidence from Six European Cities. disP - The Planning Review, 55(4), 28-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2019.1708068

For more than two decades, entrepreneurship has been promoted as an effective means to advance the aims of urban development. Social entrepreneurship, more specifically, is seen as a driver of urban innovation and experimentation at the local level.... Read More about Developing Synergies Between Social Entrepreneurship and Urban Planning: Evidence from Six European Cities.

Exploring Current Trends in Scientific Research on Smart Specialisation (2019)
Journal Article
Mora, L., Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2019). Exploring Current Trends in Scientific Research on Smart Specialisation. Scienze Regionali-The Italian Journal of Regional Science, 18(3), 397-422. https://doi.org/10.14650/94657

This paper describes current trends in scientific research on Smart Specialisation by answering the following questions: (1) How many scientific publications on Smart Specialisation have been produced since this concept emerged and what are their cha... Read More about Exploring Current Trends in Scientific Research on Smart Specialisation.

Five decades of research on urban poverty: Main research communities, core knowledge producers, and emerging thematic areas (2019)
Journal Article
Panori, A., Mora, L., & Reid, A. (2019). Five decades of research on urban poverty: Main research communities, core knowledge producers, and emerging thematic areas. Journal of Cleaner Production, 237, 117850. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.117850

Urban poverty represents one of the greatest and most urgent challenges that modern society is facing. The criticality of this global issue is represented by a rapidly growing body of academic literature which aims to explain the dynamics of urban po... Read More about Five decades of research on urban poverty: Main research communities, core knowledge producers, and emerging thematic areas.

The Advent of Practice Theories in Research on Sustainable Consumption: Past, Current and Future Directions of the Field (2019)
Journal Article
Corsini, F., Laurenti, R., Meinherz, F., Appio, F. P., & Mora, L. (2019). The Advent of Practice Theories in Research on Sustainable Consumption: Past, Current and Future Directions of the Field. Sustainability, 11(2), https://doi.org/10.3390/su11020341

The application of practice theories in the domain of sustainability research in consumer studies is increasingly advocated based on the premise that this allows to analyse consumption as a social phenomenon. Consequently, the applications of social... Read More about The Advent of Practice Theories in Research on Sustainable Consumption: Past, Current and Future Directions of the Field.

How to Overcome the Dichotomous Nature of Smart City Research: Proposed Methodology and Results of a Pilot Study (2018)
Journal Article
Mora, L., Deakin, M., Reid, A., & Angelidou, M. (2019). How to Overcome the Dichotomous Nature of Smart City Research: Proposed Methodology and Results of a Pilot Study. Journal of Urban Technology, 26(2), 89-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2018.152

Overcoming the dichotomous nature of smart city research is fundamental to providing cities with a clear understanding of how smart city development should be approached. This paper introduces a research methodology for conducting the multiple-case s... Read More about How to Overcome the Dichotomous Nature of Smart City Research: Proposed Methodology and Results of a Pilot Study.

Strategic principles for smart city development: A multiple case study analysis of European best practices (2018)
Journal Article
Mora, L., Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2019). Strategic principles for smart city development: A multiple case study analysis of European best practices. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 142, 70-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2018.07.035

Recent studies reveal a deep-rooted division in research on smart cities, which surfaces as a set of dichotomies that question whether smart city development should be based on a: (1) technology-led or holistic strategy; (2) double or quadruple-helix... Read More about Strategic principles for smart city development: A multiple case study analysis of European best practices.

Combining Co-Citation Clustering and Text-Based Analysis to Reveal the Main Development Paths of Smart Cities (2018)
Journal Article
Mora, L., Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2019). Combining Co-Citation Clustering and Text-Based Analysis to Reveal the Main Development Paths of Smart Cities. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 142, 56-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2018.07.019

Bibliometrics is a powerful tool for analyzing knowledge domains and revealing their cognitive-epistemological structure. Different mathematical models and statistical techniques have been proposed and tested to carry out bibliometric analyses and de... Read More about Combining Co-Citation Clustering and Text-Based Analysis to Reveal the Main Development Paths of Smart Cities.

Exploring the Big Picture of Smart City Research (2018)
Journal Article
Komninos, N., & Mora, L. (2018). Exploring the Big Picture of Smart City Research. Scienze Regionali-The Italian Journal of Regional Science, 1, 15-38

This paper analyses the big picture of the smart city research field by means of a bibliometric analysis of the literature on smart cities produced between 1992 and 2012. The findings show that this new field of scientific inquiry has started to grow... Read More about Exploring the Big Picture of Smart City Research.

The First Two Decades of Smart-City Research: A Bibliometric Analysis (2017)
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Mora, L., Bolici, R., & Deakin, M. (2017). The First Two Decades of Smart-City Research: A Bibliometric Analysis. Journal of Urban Technology, 24(1), 3-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2017.1285123

This paper reports on the first two decades of research on smart cities by conducting a bibliometric analysis of the literature published between 1992 and 2012. The analysis shows that smart city research is fragmented and lacks cohesion, and its gro... Read More about The First Two Decades of Smart-City Research: A Bibliometric Analysis.

Urban regeneration in the digital era: how to develop smart city strategies in large European cities (2015)
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Mora, L., & Bolici, R. (2015). Urban regeneration in the digital era: how to develop smart city strategies in large European cities. Techne. Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, 5(2), 110-119

The study documented in this paper has been carried out in order to acquire new knowledge concerning the development processes of smart city strategies. This aim has been achieved through the analysis of the initiatives proposed by the municipal ad... Read More about Urban regeneration in the digital era: how to develop smart city strategies in large European cities.