Conceptual Understanding of Smart Cities

The paper focus on the perspectives of urbanization, issues related to infrastructure and smart city as a strategy posed to reduce stress on infrastructure, through various components like smart people, smart governance, smart mobility, smart environment related to city and its key parameters. The idea of smart city concept in Vishakhapatnam as a pilot study is discussed and the key areas of intervention like technology, economy, environment, quality of life to make it a global city.