ISBN:
9780128154786
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (440 pages)
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DDC:
307.760285
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Cities and towns-Technological innovations
Abstract:
Front Cover -- Untangling Smart Cities: From Utopian Dreams to Innovation Systems for a Technology-Enabled Urban Sustainability -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword: The landscape of smart cities -- Chapter 1 Moving beyond the smart city utopia -- 1.1 Utopian urbanism -- 1.2 Smart cities and the new utopia -- 1.3 Making sense of smart cities: Aim and structure of this book -- References -- Chapter 2 Smart city development as an ICT-driven approach to urban sustainability -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Cities in the digital era: Emerging technological trends -- 2.2.1 Faster, cheaper, smaller: The evolutionary process in the ICT sector -- 2.2.2 Intangible: The virtual image of cities -- 2.2.3 Everywhere: Mobility, ubiquity, and the Internet of Things -- 2.2.4 Volume, velocity, and variety: Data production in the digital era -- 2.3 Smart stories: Deploying ICT to boost urban sustainability -- 2.3.1 Facilitating the sustainable management of natural resources -- 2.3.2 Ensuring equal access to basic services and infrastructures -- 2.3.3 Improving food security -- 2.3.4 Promoting environmentally sound waste management and reducing waste generation -- 2.3.5 Improving the resilience of cities to natural disasters -- 2.4 The smart city movement is worldwide -- References -- Chapter 3 The first two decades of research on smart city development -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Bibliometrics and the analysis of knowledge domains -- 3.3 The first two decades of smart-city research -- 3.3.1 New and fast-growing -- 3.3.2 Lack of cohesion -- 3.3.3 Divergent roots -- 3.3.4 Two leading knowledge hubs -- 3.4 A promising but divided research field -- 3.5 The need to act in concert -- References -- Chapter 4 Revealing the main development paths of smart cities -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Hybrid techniques for thematic cluster analysis.
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