Intelligent city definitions

The concept of ‘city intelligence’ can  be and has been interpreted
in many different ways: 
from referring simply to the level of digital infrastructure provision 

to the idea of the city as a functioning being in and of itself, capable 
of autonomous reaction to stimuli. 
This relationship with the provision of digital infrastructure arises 
largely through the derivation of the concept from studies 
concerning intelligent buildings. 
The first applications of the term ‘intelligent building’ in the 1980s 
were extremely technocentric, and it was only towards the end of
this decade that the concept began to be expanded beyond
technological terminology.