Smart and Sustainable Cities: A New Urban Transformation

The “smart city” concept was born with the aim of providing an urban complex that allows society to achieve greater well-being and a better quality of life through greater efficiency of public services and its infrastructure through digital technologies. However, today society not only demands to improve its current well-being, but also cares about that of future generations, in such a way that smart cities must consider sustainability as an integral part of their development and evolution. Therefore, the aim of this chapter is to determine the impact of digital technologies implemented in smart cities on the social, environmental, economic and institutional dimensions of sustainable development and thus promote urban development that is not only smart but also sustainable, taking as reference dimensions evaluated by indices worldwide