The first two articles in this issue illustrate two of the many directions scholars have taken in researching smart cities. The first paper, “The Smart City as Global Discourse: Storylines and Critical Junctures across 27 Cities,” by Simon Joss, Frans Sengers, Daan Schraven, Federico Caprotti, and Youri Dayot attempts to “interrogate the smart city as a global discourse network.” The significance of how this ubiquitous concept of the smart city has gone global is that the sobriquet “smart” is replacing “sustainable” as the way future cities will be conceptualized when the former does not necessarily embody the latter. The authors use a “webometric” approach to examine this discourse, capturing a broad online discourse created by a range of actors, including municipal authorities, national agencies, international organizations, think tanks, consultants, and others. Their paper is guided by three questions: “(1)Which cities worldwide are mainly associated with contemporary smart city discourses [in English language]? (2) What are the key dimensions of this discourse and how do they interrelate? (3) How are particular narratives mobilized to legitimize the smart city, and what critical junctures reveal themselves?” While not the central focus of this piece, the idea that is becoming more prevalent—the tension between the idea of smart cities and sustainable cities—is alluded to here. One smart city initiative in the city of Bristol in the United Kingdom figures prominently in the article by Peter Cooper, Theo Tryfonas, Tom Crick, and Alex Marsh. Their paper, “Electric Vehicle Mobility as-a-Service: Exploring the ‘Tri-Opt’ of Novel Private Transport Business Models,” explores how three distinct trends have “disrupted the dominance of privately owned, combustion-powered car transport in the United Kingdom.” Those trends include affordable electric powertrains, new models of car ownership and sharing, and “the growth of ‘smart city’ thinking” that emphasizes capitalizing on increased connectivity and data availability to create value—what the authors call the “tri-opt” of private transport. After studying a variety of these “opts,” the authors identify the intersection of electric vehicles, mobility-as-aservice, and smart cities as a necessary locus for further research. Allen J. Scott focuses on what he labels “third-wave” cities in his article “Land Redevelopment and the Built Environment in Third-Wave Cities: Review and Synthesis.” He sees the built environment of cities being reshaped during a current economic wave that is intimately intertwined with global finance and the digital technology that allows increased fluidity and risk. He explores how the cities that have been swept along by this new wave have evolved new trends in land redevelopment and the built environment. These cities have seen an “economic and architectural renaissance in the central business districts (both enabled by digital technologies), the widespread gentrification of inner-city neighborhoods, and the emergence of a new post-suburban phase of peripheral urban expansion.” His argument is buttressed by a detailed appendix, outlining the elementary principles of property redevelopment in this new age. In this journal’s first article on drones (called by the authors “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” [UVAs]), Jake R. Nelson, Tony H. Grubesic, Danielle Wallace, and Alyssa W. Chamberlain attempt to measure the public’s perception of how these vehicles affect privacy. In the future, I am sure that we will publish additional papers covering issues such as security,

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本期前两篇文章阐述了学者在研究智慧城市方面所采取的众多方向中的两个。第一篇论文“作为全球话语的智慧城市：跨越 27 个城市的故事情节和关键节点”，作者 Simon Joss、Frans Sengers、Daan Schraven、Federico Caprotti 和 Youri Dayot 试图“将智慧城市作为一个全球话语网络进行审问”。 ” 这种无处不在的智慧城市概念如何走向全球的意义在于，绰号“智能”正在取代“可持续”作为未来城市的概念化方式，而前者不一定体现后者。作者使用“网络测量”方法来检查这种话语，捕捉由一系列参与者创建的广泛在线话语，包括市政当局、国家机构、国际组织、智囊团、顾问等。他们的论文以三个问题为指导：“（1）全球哪些城市主要与当代智慧城市话语相关[英语]？(2) 这个话语的关键维度是什么？它们之间是如何相互关联的？(3) 如何动员特定的叙事来使智慧城市合法化，哪些关键时刻会显现出来？” 虽然不是这篇文章的中心焦点，但这里提到了越来越普遍的想法——智慧城市和可持续城市的想法之间的紧张关系。英国布里斯托尔市的一项智慧城市计划在 Peter Cooper、Theo Tryfonas、Tom Crick 和 Alex Marsh 的文章中占有突出地位。他们的论文，“电动汽车出行即服务：探索新型私人交通商业模式的‘Tri-Opt’，”探讨了三种截然不同的趋势如何“破坏了英国私人拥有的燃烧动力汽车运输的主导地位”。这些趋势包括负担得起的电动动力系统、汽车拥有和共享的新模式，以及强调利用增加的连接性和数据可用性来创造价值的“‘智慧城市’思维的增长”——作者称之为“三选择”私人交通工具。在研究了各种这些“选择”之后，作者将电动汽车、移动即服务和智慧城市的交叉点确定为进一步研究的必要场所。Allen J. Scott 在他的文章“第三次浪潮城市中的土地再开发和建筑环境：回顾与综合”中重点讨论了他对“第三次浪潮”城市的标签。” 他认为，在当前的经济浪潮中，城市的建成环境正在被重塑，这与全球金融和数字技术密切相关，从而增加了流动性和风险。他探讨了被这股新浪潮席卷而来的城市如何演变出土地再开发和建筑环境的新趋势。这些城市已经见证了“中央商务区的经济和建筑复兴（均由数字技术实现），市中心社区的广泛高档化，以及外围城市扩张的后郊区新阶段的出现。” 他的论点得到了详细的附录的支持，概述了新时代房地产重建的基本原则。在该期刊关于无人机的第一篇文章中（作者称之为“无人驾驶飞行器”[UVA]），Jake R. Nelson、Tony H. Grubesic、Danielle Wallace 和 Alyssa W. Chamberlain 试图衡量公众对这些车辆如何影响隐私的看法。未来，我相信我们会发表更多的论文，涵盖安全、