{
  "id": 9082,
  "url": "https://doi.org/10.3390/smartcities5030040",
  "title": "The Metaverse as a Virtual Form of Smart Cities: Opportunities and Challenges for Environmental, Economic, and Social Sustainability in Urban Futures",
  "summary": "Data infrastructures, economic processes, and governance models of digital platforms are increasingly pervading urban sectors and spheres of urban life. This phenomenon is known as platformization, which has in turn given rise to the phenomena of platform society, where platforms have permeated the core of urban societies. A recent manifestation of platformization is the Metaverse, a global platform project launched by Meta (formerly Facebook) as a globally operating platform company. The Metave",
  "authors": "Zaheer Allam, Ayyoob Sharifi, Simon Elias Bibri, David S. Jones, John Krogstie",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,environment",
  "orgs": "meta",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2022-07-08T00:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:33:50.743Z",
  "source_slug": "openalex",
  "source_name": "OpenAlex",
  "source_homepage": "https://openalex.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/9082",
  "original_url": "https://doi.org/10.3390/smartcities5030040",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}