Thanks for all wonderful answers. What I feel is smart cities are sustainable cities. The themes for sustainable cities actually focus on

land use allocation, open space to built space ratio as a part of green design, Sustainable transport options like BRTS-Pune Ahemdabad, Green buildings and its green neighborhood like Sabarmati Riverfront development and of course the conservation of environmental features like hills and rivers etc. Water and energy efficiency, reuse, recycling, Material efficiency and housing for poor

• Social,
• Environmental,
• Economic,
• Energy,
• Agricultural

I side with Rai; however, Art and History should not be left out.

In terms of smart cities, these fields are always looked into more:

Environment

Agriculture

Social (Culture, Anthropology, Sociology, Art)

Engineering

Health/Pharmaceuticals

Finance/Economics

In a recent study conducted in Winona, Minnesota my team and I considered seven indicators of sustainability. Copy of this paper is here attached and I hope it serves to answer your questions.

Integration of all the sections in a precise manner

interesting question

Thank you for sharing this question....

According to me, Sustainable development is cluster of interconnected actions, consequences and challenges. It requires that individual people, communities, businesses, organisations, governments or cultures think beyond themselves to understand how their own sustainability influences and is influenced by others.

Smart cities are not sustainable cities but it can be one theme of sustainable city. When human starts living with the nature without degrading the same is called sustainable development. Sustainable themes are entirely different which may be called Planetary Boundaries.

I think this may meet some of your expectations, Sir.

Also education.

And arrangement of the space (not only urban space).

Thanks for all wonderful answers. What I feel is smart cities are sustainable cities. The themes for sustainable cities actually focus on

land use allocation, open space to built space ratio as a part of green design, Sustainable transport options like BRTS-Pune Ahemdabad, Green buildings and its green neighborhood like Sabarmati Riverfront development and of course the conservation of environmental features like hills and rivers etc. Water and energy efficiency, reuse, recycling, Material efficiency and housing for poor

These are all the themes of green design I appreciate the answer given by Dr K N Sheth

Answer of Dr K N Sheth is satisfactory

Answer of Dr K N Sheth is very satisfactory

Sustainability Theme 1: Resource Efficiency.This will have four sub themes:

• Supporting Policy and Enforcement.
• Resource Efficient Production.
• Waste as a Resource.
• Sustainable Waste Treatment Options

Sustainability Theme 2: Health & Wellbeing :This would have four subthemes:

• Ecosystem Benefits for Health.
• Safe Water for Drinking Food Production and Recreation.
• Clean Air & Noise.
• Chemicals and Other Threats.

Theme 3: Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services including soils and biodiversity.his will have three sub-themes:

• Evaluation/Assessment of our Natural Capital.
• Managing, Protecting & Restoring our Natural Capital.
• Governance & Behavioral Changes. Theme 4: Socio-Economic Aspects of a Sustainable Environment>this will have three sub themes:
• Production & Service Provision.
• Consumption.
• Governance.

The UNDP Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) may also give some points to consider:

(1) reduced inequalities,

(2) sustainable cities and communities,

(3) responsible consumption and production,

(4) climate action,

(5) life below water,

(6) life on land,

(7) peace,

(8) justice and strong institutions, and

(9) partnerships for the goals

... and more

In total, there are 17 of them, see here;

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?menu=1300

Everything that has to do with human life and prosperity must be sustainable.

Dear porfessor Sheth,

You can find information about relation between Smart cities and sustainability in this Focus Group link: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/ssc/Pages/default.aspx Also in this article; Knowledge-based, smart and sustainable cities: a provocation for a conceptual framework, available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40852-018-0087-2 In addition, in our paper The sustainable future of the smaller historical centres, between "modulation of the protection" and new technologies, presented in the 11th CYTV, co-written with professor Cerasoli, we talk about the relation between the sustainability of the Historical centres while ITC, considering the Smart city concept, available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2117/91488 or here in Researchgate link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309592509_The_sustainable_future_of_the_smaller_historical_centres_between_modulation_of_the_protection_and_new_technologies I hope help you. Best regards. Rolando.

Firstly the environmental theme, then the climatological theme and lastly the agricultural theme. Best regards

Thanks for continuous input RG Members

Article Sustainable development of smart cities: A systematic review...

Article Exploring Sustainability of Smart Development Initiatives in India

Interesting discussion, I am following...

Conservation of all resources and policy

As many excellent answers have arised, in a way of a general summary I would add that around smart cities and the term sustainability, it would be useful to focus on four pillars to disaggregate this complex term. The first three are well known (social, economic and environmental). However, in the same interconnected and interdependent conception of whole integrality, as are treated the first three, we should also consider a fourth pillar: the political. This pillar has demonstrated to influence greatly every public and private work. This means that disaggregating each pillar in key specific issues and relevant indicators, we may produce a sound and effective management of sustainability.

The UNDP Sustainable Development Goal 11 is dedicated to sustainable cities. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg11

Human capital, citizens engagement, social capital and networks, are also relevant themes