Calvin Ming Tsun Lai

Biographic Data

ID6879294
NAMECalvin Ming Tsun Lai
GIVEN NAMESCalvin Ming Tsun
FAMILY NAMELai
SIGNATURELAI C M T
AFFILIATIONSTechnische Universität Darmstadt
ORCID0000-0002-6847-8268
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Voices of the City: Understanding Hong Kong Residents’ Views on Smart City Transformation

    Open AccessAlistair Cole, Dionysios Stivas et al.ARTICLEUrban Science2025References: 8

    This study explores Hong Kong residents’ perceptions of their city’s smart city transformation, set against a backdrop of political and economic changes. It investigates residents’ awareness and support for Hong Kong’s development as a smart city and their familiarity with the Smart City Blueprint. Despite the global emphasis on smart city initiatives, there is a significant gap in understanding residents’ perceptions, with the existing literatur…

  • Understanding Trust in the Smart City Through Focus Groups in Hong Kong

    Open AccessCalvin Ming Tsun Lai, Alistair Cole et al.ARTICLEUrban Science2025References: 14

    This paper examines the role of focus groups in mixed-methods research, focusing on trust dynamics within the smart city. It takes the Asian metropolis of Hong Kong as its empirical case. It successfully validates focus groups as a research method across three dimensions. Firstly, focus groups facilitate the comparison of in-depth discussions across various demographic groups; secondly, focus groups enable collective deliberation to uncover hidde…

  • International Perception and Local Pride in Smart City Development: The Case of Hong Kong

    Open AccessCalvin Ming Tsun Lai, Alistair ColeARTICLETRaNS Trans -Regional and…2024Cited by: 1References: 21

    Local citizens’ perceptions of their own cities are often neglected when assessing cities’ performance. Using the perceived international image and collective pride in Hong Kong as the entry point, this article aims to discover the relationship between citizens’ trust in public authorities and urban technologies. Four angles of investigation are developed: the impact of cities’ promotion of their international image on local pride; the attitudina…

  • The ‘Smart City’ between urban narrative and empty signifier: Hong Kong in focus

    Open AccessAlistair Cole, Dionysios Stivas et al.ARTICLECogent Social Sciences2023

    The article consists in an in-depth interpretative study of Smart City in the case of the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, China. It proposes a framework of analysis as a heuristic tool to interpret narratives in general and those of Smart City Hong Kong in particular. The capacity of a narrative to confer meaning draws upon three criteria: its originality (degree of endogeneity); its sincerity (internal validity and trustworthiness), …

  • Measuring progress of smart cities: Indexing the smart city indices

    Open AccessCalvin Ming Tsun Lai, Alistair ColeARTICLEUrban Governance2022Cited by: 2References: 4

    The ‘smart city’ represents a core feature of modern urban development. The appearance of numerous smart city indices, which claim to successfully evaluate and compare smart city performances, is the manifestation of the concept's growing popularity. The central objective of this paper is to address the integrity and quality of the existing smart city indices, and identify those ones which are fit for international comparison. We propose a method…