Smart city initiatives: Designing a projectlevel smart value assessment instrument While the smart city gains global attention as a popular umbrella term for digitally enabled sustainable city development, city ad ministrations are faced with the managerial challenge that comes with a strategic digital transformation. Smart city projects form the frontline of smart city strategies. In these smart projects, cities find a way to implement the principles of the smart city. Many of these are highvisibility projects with substantial budget implications, and therefore require scrutiny by means of a formal selection and evaluation process. In this researchinprogress paper we propose the outline for a projectlevel smart value assessment instrument. The instrument should serve at the same time as a tool for smart city managers to assess and plan upfront how a project will con tribute to reach the cityxe2x80x99s smart city ambition, as well as a post factum evaluation. The conceptual instrument has been developed in actiondesign research mode in collaboration with practitioners in the city of Brisbane, Australia and is demonstrated by mapping four smart city initiatives in different international contexts.

An urban informatics approach to smart city learning in architecture and urban design education This study aims to redefine spaces of learning to places of learning through the direct engagement of local communities as a way to examine and learn from real world issues in the city. This paper exemplifies Smart City Learning, where the key goal is to promote the generation and exchange of urban design ideas for the future development of South Bank, in Brisbane, Australia, informing the creation of new design policies responding to the needs of local citizens. Specific to this project was the implementation of urban informatics techniques and approaches to promote innovative engagement strategies. Architecture and Urban Design students were encouraged to review and appropriate realtime, ubiquitous technology, social media, and mobile devices that were used by urban residents to augment and mediate the physical and digital layers of urban infrastructures. Our studyxe2x80x99s experience found that urban informatics provide an innovative opportunity to enrich studentsxe2x80x99 place of learning within the city.