Reviewing the City Concepts: Towards Smart, Sustainable, and Healthy City

The complex challenges of urbanization demand innovative strategies from both public and private sectors worldwide. Despite numerous planning initiatives branded with distinct city labels, the health of citizens remains an underemphasized concern. This qualitative study seeks to address the intricacies of urbanization and its negative health effects by advocating for an integrated framework that combines technology, sustainability, and health to create "smart, sustainable, and healthy" cities. The study aims to understand city concepts, their emergence, application, and evolution. It conducts a comparative analysis of achievements and challenges in implementing these concepts, identifying the need for progression. The study categorizes the city concepts under technology, sustainability, and wellbeing to highlight the need for a hybrid city concept, focusing on the need for a more integrated approach to urban planning. The findings reveal a dynamic and complex interplay among these domains, highlighting the need for collaborative efforts to prioritize health within the broader scope of smart and sustainable urban development. This approach ensures that urban health receives the attention it deserves in modern urban planning