Towards sustainable urban communities

Cities of tomorrow as sustainable communities contribute to creating value promoting social and economic urban growth and development. The aim of the study is to elucidate that cities can follow some pathways to develop the city as sustainable urban commuity. Cities as sustainable and smart communities should promote continuous innovation within knowledge-based, technological-enabled and learning-oriented society. Cities promote smartness as strategic vision that helps design citizen-centered services driving urban organizational networks and cooperation to develop innovation systems. As sustainable communities, cities develop an urban community that enables all the stakeholders to actively play a key role to support innovation and contribute to value creation. Cities use the potential offered by information technolpogy to design a human-centered and community-oriented city able to support urban growth and development engaging urban stakeholders in innovation processes and systems.