Objective of the paper is to get analyze the scientific studies by focusing on smart city concepts and sustainability to understand better. For doing such thing, the study identifies the information about the different existing and recent technologies, various research, different models and various frameworks. The methodology used for this research is qualitative by an organized review of different literatures, which examines the important terminologies like, “Smart city”, “Urban Computing” and “Sustainability”, focusing on the sustainable development of smart cities. This review gives detailed information regarding the recent scientific piece of writing focusing variety of issues related to smart cities and sustainability. This review may provide a base to the researchers looking for surrounding information to explore more. The finding gives important insights for the scholars researching in the area under discussion, and managers are trying to apply those in their respective cities. In the last section we have proposed a three layered framework of smart cities which includes the supporting technologies, pillars of smart city and the society which gets benefitted
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