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Transforming a city into a Smart Sustainable City (SSC) is a complex, multidimensional process that leads to various changes at all city levels. Different transformation models exist in the literature; each tackles a transformation process from its point of view without a clear justification of the proposed stages and components to be achieved throughout the transformation journey. A solid theoretical foundation is needed as basis for selecting and identifying the elements of the SSC transformation without which the possibility of neglecting essential stages becomes high. This may lead to an incomplete transformation process, or worst, lead the whole transformation process to fail. This research paper aims at introducing a novel theoretical foundation for the transformation towards SSCs.