ITU‐T's Technical Reports and Specifications 77 Ref. No. Category Definitions/Features Key concept/ Keywords Source 34 Corporate The \"smart sustainable city\" concept is really a framework for a specific vision of modern urban development. It recognizes the growing importance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as drivers of economic competitiveness, environmental sustainability, and general liveability. By leveraging ICT as a core element of their development, the smart sustainable cities of the future will foster economic growth, improve the lifestyle of citizens, create opportunities for urban development and renewal, support eco‐sustainability initiatives, improve the political and representative process, and provide access to advanced financial services. The right ICT infrastructure will affect the way each city will be created and evolved. It will enable smart sustainable cities to include vastly enhanced sustainable areas, such as smart buildings, smart infrastructures (water, energy, heat, and transportation) and smart services (e‐substitutes and e‐services for travel, health, education, and entertainment), which drastically change the urban experience for city dwellers and travellers. ICT, economy, environment, sustainability, quality of life, development, renewal, citizen representation, financial services, smart buildings, smart infrastructure, water, energy, heat, transportation, e‐services. Alcatel Lucent (2011)