Abstract
A prominent concern of urbanization is to address affiliated challenges and/or strive for
sustainability in the long-term. Towards this end, three conspicuous city forms are being
advanced in the literature body such as sustainable, smart and eco-friendly, but these disparate
advances might confuse the concerned actors who are looking forward to steer urbanization
through present-day realities and emerging threats. This study adopts smart form discourse as the
overarching theme of its discussion. Smart cities represent a popular theme for research with
extensive body of literature which is expanding over time. Conversely, this theme incorporates a
wide range of (varying) perspectives which in turn give the impression of a poorly defined
phenomenon. At this juncture, efforts towards consensus-building on defining smart cities need
attention. To this end, this study provides an overview of such efforts in the past and features a
systematic literature review to propose a comprehensive multidisciplinary perspectives model for
defining smart cities. Findings of this study suggest convergence of the sustainable, smart and
eco-friendly perspectives under the smart form discourse, which in turn lead to a coherent whole
about propositions for urbanization. Accordingly, this study advances the notion that a city is
truly smart when it can capitalize on its resources for desired ends, is risk-aware and strives for
sustainability in the long-term
Temoor bin Aslam, Yaamina Salman, Sidra Irfan, Nasira Jabeen. (2018) Smart Cities – A Multidisciplinary Perspectives Model, South Asian Studies, Volume 33, Issue 2.
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