ABSTRACT
A smart city is one that integrates information and communication systems to manage a city’s assets. The objective in the design of smart cities and smart neighborhoods is to coordinate all the monitoring systems. The lesson is that the wholehearted focus in planning on the needs for the efficient operation of communications technology and monitoring systems must be tempered by greater consideration for the qualities of the public domain of cities. The proponents of smart cities argue that communities, business clusters, urban agglomerations, and metropolitan regions must integrate their information systems to be economically competitive in a neoliberal world. Smart cities should function to give people an enhanced sense of safety and security. Advocates see that one of the functions of smart cities is to give places corporate marketing advantages in a competitive economic world and thus the economic security of its business interests.
