Cities with intelligence evolve tending to build a strong integration of all possible dimensions of intelligence: human, collective, and artificial, that could be present in a city. This integration is elaborated by establishing multi-dimensional agglomerates, where the three main dimensions just mentioned are combined (Komninos-2006, pp. 17-18; Komninos-2008, pp. 122-123).

The first dimension is linked to the people of the city: intelligence, inventiveness, and creativity of the individuals who live or work in the city, or who are passing through it. This perspective was described by Richard Florida[10]​ as the 'creative city', which adds values ​​and objectives to the 'new creative class', whose strength lies in the talent, knowledge, and drive of scientists, artists, businessmen, venture capitalists, as well as creative individuals with other diverse characteristics, who can have enormous impact on the organization of work, leisure, and rest spaces, thus helping directly and indirectly to the progress of companies, and to a better development of the city itself.

The second dimension has to do with the collective intelligence of the population of a city: 'it is the capacity of human communities to create synergies and cooperate intellectually in creations, innovations, and inventions'; 'it is the learning and collective creative process carried out through the exchange of information, knowledge, and possibilities of intellectual creativity'; 'it is the capacity of a group to organize, to debate and decide regarding its own future, to control deviations in complex contexts' (Atlee-2004).[11]​ This dimension is largely based on the institutions of the city, which allow the cooperation and compatibility of efforts of multiple actors in terms of knowledge, innovation, and initiatives.[12]​[13]​.

The third dimension is related to artificial intelligence, in various ways well integrated into the physical environment of the city, and available for use by the population, in the communications infrastructure itself, in digital spaces, in the public tools available to, for example, solve different problems related to pollution and dangers in the city.[14]​.

Thus, the concept of "city with intelligence" also integrates the three main dimensions of an agglomeration: its physical spaces, its institutional structures, and its digital tools. Consequently, the term "city with intelligence" describes and encompasses a territory with:.

1. • well-planned and developed activities that are related to knowledge;

2. • integrated routines of social cooperation, allowing knowledge and know-how to be acquired and adapted;

3. • a set of communication infrastructures, digital spaces, and tools to support knowledge and innovation;

4. • a proven ability to innovate, to manage, to solve problems that arise for the first time.

An important point to better understand what a city with intelligence really is is to know how to differentiate this concept from other forms of smart spaces or smart territories: digital city"); smart environment; smart city.

All cities with intelligence are also digital cities, but not all digital cities can be classified as cities with intelligence (Komninos-2002, pp. 195-201). The main difference is in the ability to solve problems. Note that the distinctive characteristic of digital cities is fundamentally in the offer of services through digital communications; Consider, for example, the following cases:

1. • The administration of a city (or a local community) offers online services (through its web portal), which it previously offered directly only in person; This is a typical case of a digital city service.

2. • A community creates new services for its citizens, using digital spaces and digital tools to consult them, and with possibilities for collaborative online developments; This is also a typical development of a digital city.

Regarding the second case, the digital space is provided with tools that contribute to increasing the community's capacity to use collective intelligence, and thus find new solutions to one or more problems.

As a general rule, it can be said, in terms of the offer of services, that digital cities are placed between public authorities and citizens, as a "recipient or reservoir of services", that is, as digital markets, and that cities with intelligence are positioned as co-creators of services - for example, as a living laboratory. This vision explains why the main constituent elements of a city with intelligence are related to innovation and problem-solving processes, such as competitive intelligence, technology absorption, collaborative product development, and new product promotion strategies.

Smart environments are digital spaces in which digital integration leaves the limits of the computer, to become embedded in the environments and infrastructure of the city. Smart environments can be combined and articulated both with digital cities (for example by automating the service delivery chain), as well as with smart cities and cities with intelligence, automating the collection and processing of information in the development process of a new product or service.[15]​.

And finally, it can be highlighted that a city with intelligence is a city that at least lacks something more or less transcendent to become a smart city, that is, what fails or is missing or is not very developed in cities with intelligence is the holistic approach of smart cities.

Recent publications on cities with intelligence and smart cities or efficiently intelligent cities, reinforce the convergence between innovative systems and virtual environments for the creation of global innovation systems (Bell-2009;[16]​ Komninos-2008;[17]​ IJIRD-2009[18]​). The theory of open innovation (Open Innovation)[19]​ showed that the emphasis in the innovation process changed, from companies to external innovation networks and knowledge environments, which now took on global dimensions thanks to improvements in communications and in particular thanks to the Internet and services based on the WWW. Virtual spaces and embedded systems are generating new hybrid environments (global digital eco-systems), living laboratories, intelligent machines (or i-hubs, smart currencies, e-coins and i-coins), smart cities with electronic government, digital cities, etc.), which amplify the use of networks, as well as experimentation and innovation on global scales.

• - Solidarity economy.

• - Smart city.

• - Smart environment.

• - Business intelligence.

• - Creative Class").

• - The Rise of the Creative Class").

• - Theory of problem solving").

• - Forecast (statistics) "Forecast (statistics)").

• - This work contains a partial translation derived from “Intelligent City” from Wikipedia in Portuguese, published by its editors under the GNU Free Documentation License and the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

• - This work contains a partial translation derived from "Intelligent city" from English Wikipedia, published by its editors under the GNU Free Documentation License and the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Cities with intelligence evolve tending to build a strong integration of all possible dimensions of intelligence: human, collective, and artificial, that could be present in a city. This integration is elaborated by establishing multi-dimensional agglomerates, where the three main dimensions just mentioned are combined (Komninos-2006, pp. 17-18; Komninos-2008, pp. 122-123).

The first dimension is linked to the people of the city: intelligence, inventiveness, and creativity of the individuals who live or work in the city, or who are passing through it. This perspective was described by Richard Florida[10]​ as the 'creative city', which adds values ​​and objectives to the 'new creative class', whose strength lies in the talent, knowledge, and drive of scientists, artists, businessmen, venture capitalists, as well as creative individuals with other diverse characteristics, who can have enormous impact on the organization of work, leisure, and rest spaces, thus helping directly and indirectly to the progress of companies, and to a better development of the city itself.

The second dimension has to do with the collective intelligence of the population of a city: 'it is the capacity of human communities to create synergies and cooperate intellectually in creations, innovations, and inventions'; 'it is the learning and collective creative process carried out through the exchange of information, knowledge, and possibilities of intellectual creativity'; 'it is the capacity of a group to organize, to debate and decide regarding its own future, to control deviations in complex contexts' (Atlee-2004).[11]​ This dimension is largely based on the institutions of the city, which allow the cooperation and compatibility of efforts of multiple actors in terms of knowledge, innovation, and initiatives.[12]​[13]​.

The third dimension is related to artificial intelligence, in various ways well integrated into the physical environment of the city, and available for use by the population, in the communications infrastructure itself, in digital spaces, in the public tools available to, for example, solve different problems related to pollution and dangers in the city.[14]​.

Thus, the concept of "city with intelligence" also integrates the three main dimensions of an agglomeration: its physical spaces, its institutional structures, and its digital tools. Consequently, the term "city with intelligence" describes and encompasses a territory with:.

1. • well-planned and developed activities that are related to knowledge;

2. • integrated routines of social cooperation, allowing knowledge and know-how to be acquired and adapted;

3. • a set of communication infrastructures, digital spaces, and tools to support knowledge and innovation;

4. • a proven ability to innovate, to manage, to solve problems that arise for the first time.

An important point to better understand what a city with intelligence really is is to know how to differentiate this concept from other forms of smart spaces or smart territories: digital city"); smart environment; smart city.

All cities with intelligence are also digital cities, but not all digital cities can be classified as cities with intelligence (Komninos-2002, pp. 195-201). The main difference is in the ability to solve problems. Note that the distinctive characteristic of digital cities is fundamentally in the offer of services through digital communications; Consider, for example, the following cases:

1. • The administration of a city (or a local community) offers online services (through its web portal), which it previously offered directly only in person; This is a typical case of a digital city service.

2. • A community creates new services for its citizens, using digital spaces and digital tools to consult them, and with possibilities for collaborative online developments; This is also a typical development of a digital city.

Regarding the second case, the digital space is provided with tools that contribute to increasing the community's capacity to use collective intelligence, and thus find new solutions to one or more problems.

As a general rule, it can be said, in terms of the offer of services, that digital cities are placed between public authorities and citizens, as a "recipient or reservoir of services", that is, as digital markets, and that cities with intelligence are positioned as co-creators of services - for example, as a living laboratory. This vision explains why the main constituent elements of a city with intelligence are related to innovation and problem-solving processes, such as competitive intelligence, technology absorption, collaborative product development, and new product promotion strategies.

Smart environments are digital spaces in which digital integration leaves the limits of the computer, to become embedded in the environments and infrastructure of the city. Smart environments can be combined and articulated both with digital cities (for example by automating the service delivery chain), as well as with smart cities and cities with intelligence, automating the collection and processing of information in the development process of a new product or service.[15]​.

And finally, it can be highlighted that a city with intelligence is a city that at least lacks something more or less transcendent to become a smart city, that is, what fails or is missing or is not very developed in cities with intelligence is the holistic approach of smart cities.

Recent publications on cities with intelligence and smart cities or efficiently intelligent cities, reinforce the convergence between innovative systems and virtual environments for the creation of global innovation systems (Bell-2009;[16]​ Komninos-2008;[17]​ IJIRD-2009[18]​). The theory of open innovation (Open Innovation)[19]​ showed that the emphasis in the innovation process changed, from companies to external innovation networks and knowledge environments, which now took on global dimensions thanks to improvements in communications and in particular thanks to the Internet and services based on the WWW. Virtual spaces and embedded systems are generating new hybrid environments (global digital eco-systems), living laboratories, intelligent machines (or i-hubs, smart currencies, e-coins and i-coins), smart cities with electronic government, digital cities, etc.), which amplify the use of networks, as well as experimentation and innovation on global scales.

• - Solidarity economy.

• - Smart city.

• - Smart environment.

• - Business intelligence.

• - Creative Class").

• - The Rise of the Creative Class").

• - Theory of problem solving").

• - Forecast (statistics) "Forecast (statistics)").

• - This work contains a partial translation derived from “Intelligent City” from Wikipedia in Portuguese, published by its editors under the GNU Free Documentation License and the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

• - This work contains a partial translation derived from "Intelligent city" from English Wikipedia, published by its editors under the GNU Free Documentation License and the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.