1. The Sustainable City: Parameters and Issues

1.1 The sustainable city concept
1.2 The sustainable digital city
1.3 ICT’s role in the sustainable city

2. Sustainable Cities and Digital Cities

2.1 In Europe
• The eco-neighbourhoods of northern Europe
- BedZed (the UK)
- Hammarby Sjöstad (Sweden)
- Vauban Forum (Germany)
- Vesterbro (Denmark)
• National initiatives
- Eco-towns (England)
- Ecopolis (France)

2.2 In Asia
• South Korea
- Newsongdo City
- Seoul
- Busan
• Japan
- Osaka
• China
- Dongtan
• Singapore

2.3 In the Middle East
• Masdar (Abu Dhabi)
• Dubai Internet City (Dubai)

3. Digital Sevices applied to Sustainable Urban Development

3.1 Housing
• Home automation & telemetry
• Building accessibility

3.2 Urban mobility
• e-payment and e-ticketing
• Managing multimodal data on public transport
• Managing urban traffic
• Car pooling
• Car sharing
• Teleworking

3.3 Home healthcare systems
• Teleassistance and telemonitoring at home and when travelling
• Home automation sensors
• Telehealth and telemedicine networks
• Hospitalisation at home

4.4 Public services
• Managing public lighting and public heating
• Managing the roadways
• GIS
• Managing garbage collection
• Managing air quality
• Tele-procedures and e-government

3.5 Culture, leisure and tourism
• Live event information and booking online
• Digital audio guides
• Virtual exhibitions

3.6 Social and community life
• Web forums and other community-centric sites
• Blogs
• Web 2.0 social networks

3.7 Governance
• e-participation
• e-voting
• online scorecard

4. ICT Players’ Positioning

4.1 Telecom operators
• BT
• Vodafone
• Telefónica

4.2 Equipment manufacturers
• Cisco
• Intel

5. Three ICT-based Approaches to Sustainable Urban Development

5.1 The citizen-centric sustainable city
5.2 The sustainable city based on urban management
5.3 The sustainable city as technological showcase