CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Smart Cities: Co-creating experiences, challenges and opportunities

Editors: Dimitrios Buhalis, Babak Taheri, and Roya Rahimi

This book will provide a new insight for the current issues and opportunities on smart cities and related concepts in the next generation of urban evolution. It will provide a better understanding of city services but also the enhancement and evaluation of locals’ (and visitors) experience and city decision making processes by creating liveable environments and business solutions. The book will serve as:

• main reference point for smart cities researchers, scholars, students and practitioners
• state-of-art knowledge depository on marketing management (and related areas e.g., urban studies) from a new modern perspective within the smart cities.

PROVISIONAL AND INDICATIVE LIST OF CHAPTERS (SUGGESTIONS WELCOME!)

Ch 1. Introduction to Smart Cities: Co-creating experiences, challenges and opportunities

Ch 2. Co-creating smart experiences (defining co-creation of value and related concepts in contemporary age)

Ch 3. Current challenges for smart cities, tourism and urbanisation (challenges in cities which leads to need to smart cities opportunities)

Ch 4. Value co-creation in smart cities (defining smart cities and related concepts)

Ch 5. Digital transformation (in relation to smart cities and digital world)

Ch 6. Smart sustainable environment and cities (CSR and sustainability)

Ch 7. Smart people (Human capital: issues and opportunities in smart cities)

Ch 8. Smart economy (Investment: issues and opportunities in smart cities)

Ch 9. Smart mobility (Transportation: issues and opportunities in smart cities)

Ch 10. Smart living (Community engagement: issues and opportunities in smart cities)

Ch 11. Smart governance (Politics and government engagement)

Ch 12. Smart Business models, co-creation of experiences and smart cities

Ch 13. Smart trends in the tourism and hospitality industry

Ch 14. The Smart future: stakeholders, catalysts, opportunities and challenges

Ch 15. Case studies (this chapter will have a case study for each of 14 chapters)

Important dates:

• Abstract Deadline: 6 December 2019
• Chapter Submission Deadline: 12 June 2020
• Feedback deadlines: 8 August 2020
• Submitting revised chapters: 30 October 2020
• Review by editors: October to December 2020
• Submitting final chapters: 18 December 2020
• Submitting to Publisher: 12 February 2021

Action required - Guidelines for proposal submissions:

• A 500-1,000 word proposal
• Title page: title of the paper, full name of the author(s), affiliation and contact information
• One diagram describing your contribution to the topic.
• A short bio (around 150-250 words) for each author
• Soft copy as Word document attachment should be uploaded to  

For more information contact:

Professor Dimitrios Buhalis <dbuhalis@bournemouth.ac.uk>

Professor Taheri, Babak <B.Taheri@hw.ac.uk>;

Dr Rahimi, Roya  <Roya.Rahimi@wlv.ac.uk>;