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A city may be regarded as an intelligent city when its services to citizens are connected and it is able to obtain data from every aspect of its technology infrastructure to leverage it in real time for resource allocation, monitoring, management, and decision making. Cities around the globe are ambitiously leveraging the latest technologies to transform their infrastructures to better provision and manage the e-services. Although they are setting goals for focusing on the appropriate financing, long-term planning, developing technology stack, and advancing data management, governments need to further encompass all relevant guidelines towards right technology frameworks before commencing their intelligent city projects. This chapter provides a comprehensive introduction to intelligent cities, also known as smart cities, and the associated requirements. It also articulates the evolution of a typical city to a truly integrated, responsive, open, and connected intelligent city and the required underlying technologies.