How smarter are smart cities | Dr Sriram Rajagopalan

The understanding of a city and its characteristics are essential before embarking on the development of Smart cities in India. Sociological theories describe topography, climate, history, economy and culture as various characteristics of a city. More recently, spatial and time dimensions has been added to these existing elements of the social change. For developing a smart city, different factors has been identified across the world as qualifying features from research studies conducted in the past.