Publication Date: 2022
Publication Name: Sociology International Journal
DOI: 10.15406/sij.2022.06.00313
The importance of the research is that the technical development and progress that accompanied the twenty-first century offers many appropriate solutions to a range of problems that cities suffer, to improve the quality of human life and to contribute to intellectual and cultural development, to reach an integrated infrastructure, through the development of local areas and the harnessing of technology , especially the smart ones, using mechanisms that can be applied to support sustainable development in various areas of life to maintain the prosperity and prosperity of cities and the provision of services and smart ways of living, and the transformation from the traditional city to a pluralistic city, and access to a high quality of luxury, the problem is the lack of application of the principles of sustainability that contribute to reaching smart cities that help solve the problems that traditional cities suffer from, and the research aims to introduce the smart city and its role in the transition to sustainability and to identify its characteristics, components, objectives and their relationship to sustainability. and scientific theses and international websites, as well as following the analytical approach of successful global experiences, with a presentation of the steps they have implemented to reach smart cities, and the extent to which they can be applied to smart cities in the United Arab Emirates.