Event tourism has become an important economic component of modern tourism, given the growing numbers of visitors and the development of local communities that it entails. This study examines whether the distances traveled by foreign visitors to events differ from those traveled by non-event...

We consider 311 non-emergency contact centers as city-level service integration initiatives. By using a cross-case study of 311 centers at New York and Philadelphia, we found critical success factors and challenges of service integration. This paper suggests multidimensional (technological,...

The emergence of interconnected networks which include an intelligent lighting infrastructure is creating urban spaces possessing ambient intelligence in the form of smart sensors, embedded microprocessors, and cybernetic feedback systems. In his paper, Architectural Relevance of Cybernetics...

Space heat has a great share in total energy consumption--complemented by an increasing energy demand for space cooling--and is responsible for a high share of carbon dioxide emissions in the building sector. Energy and climate change policies therefore require a transition to a climate-friendly...

In the context of the Smart City Initiative, we present in this paper a pioneering Smart Urban Planning Method to reformulate the planning values used for designing and establishing the distribution and use of urban land. The new planning values for urban design are obtained from an innovative...