...Leila Toledo Martinho; Alessandra Baiocchi; Luís Alexandre Grubits de Paula Pessôa Purpose This study aims to examine how smart city attributes are perceived by visitors and represented in the official digital communication of ten Latin American cities. It investigates how city branding, smart...

...Renata Couto de Azevedo de Oliveira; Maurice Patterson Purpose This paper aims to address what it means to brand a city as “smart”. In other words, what ideas, understandings and actions are mobilized by the discourse of smart cities in a particular context. Design/methodology/approach Taking...

... identifies the magnitude of these city brand equity attributes and reconfigured their composition under separate samples of Hong Kong residents. The results reveal the relatively stronger brand equity for developing Hong Kong as a smart city brand compared with green and creative branding. Research...