Driving Cities as Sustainable Urban Communities

Cities of tomorrow evolve as sustainable communities and contribute to shaping and promoting social and economic urban growth and value. The study aims to elucidate that cities can follow certain pathways to develop the city as sustainable urban community. Cities develop a smart city view as a strategic vision to drive a human-centred and community-oriented city able to design citizen-centred services and to strengthen urban organisational networks, thus driving cooperation to develop innovation systems. The main contribution of this study is to provide a framework of analysis about how cities identify some trajectories to make the city a sustainable community looking at the future urban development by supporting urban growth and engaging urban stakeholders in collaborative innovation processes.