Verkkothis paper explored how artificial intelligence (ai) is being used in the smart city concept. From 2014 to 2021, we examined 133 articles (97% of scopus. The debate on urban smartness as an instrument for planning and managing more efficient cities has been recently positing that smart. Verkkotransformation to a smart city occurs through incremental advancements in five key areas: Vision, culture, process, technology, and data. Verkkoseveral studies on dcp gravitated toward the field of smart cities, being concerned mostly with the technological aspect and paying less attention to.