Smart cities beyond COVID-19

This chapter summarizes key ideas about smart cities for technological and social innovation and discusses barriers to smart city development. Cities and innovation are inseparable—innovation is making smart cities and smart cities strengthen innovation. The chapter claims that rights to innovation, land value capture in all kinds of land development including the smart city, disruptive institutional breakthroughs, and incentives to innovation are key steps for smart city making. The recent outbreak of COVID-19 demonstrates how cities are resilient to the emergency, by shifting with ease work modes to online where possible enabled by preexisting information and communications technology infrastructure.