ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the theoretical framework by exploring the key components of smart city to observe the implementable structure and action of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the city level, particularly, the key components of smart city beyond digital tools towards SDGs. The measurement of SDGs by data and indicators is a scope that practitioners and researches focus on regarding the implementation of SDGs in cities. The smart city is regarded as a strategy as well as the center of solutions to alleviate demographic pressure and urban problems. Improving communities living is the core of making cities smart and sustainable, particularly, in the process of smart city development. The data-driven revolution transforms the citizens' living style as well as governance structure in a great manner through various aspects. The chapter proposes the action agenda consisting of three layers, those are, integration of innovation capacity, the transformation of smart growth engine and evolvement of the socio-economic ecosystem in smart cities.
