Smart City

Ways of Knowing Cities

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Technology mediates how we know and experience cities, and the nature of this mediation has always been deeply political. Today, the production and deployment of data is at the forefront of projects to grasp and reshape urban life. Ways of Knowing Cities considers the role of te…

Planning Climate Smart and Wise Cities: A Multidisciplinary Approach

by Kim, Kwi-Gon, Thioye, Massamba

fromThe urban book series

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This book provides information that facilitates integrated climate actions in cities, leveraging disruptive technologies, business models, policies, financing, and leadership solutions. It fosters the development of climate smart and wise cities. It reviews the major development…

Handbook of research on smart territories and entrepreneurial ecosystems for social innovation and sustainabl…

fromAdvances in business strategy and competitive advantage boo…

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""This book explores smart specialization strategy as an exportable model for improving competitiveness in different environments." - Provided by publisher.

Enablers for smart cities

by El Fallah Seghrouchni, Amal, Ishikawa, Fuyuki, Hérault, Laurent, Tokuda, Hideyuki

fromInformation systems, web and pervasive computing series

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Smart cities are a new vision for urban development. They integrate information and communication technology infrastructures - in the domans of artificial intelligence, distributed and cloud computing, and sensor networks - into a city, to facilitate quality of life for its citi…

Smart City 360°: First EAI International Summit, Smart City 360°, …

fromLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Socia…

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This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First EAI International Summit, Smart City 360°, held in Bratislava, Slovakia and Toronto, ON, Canada, in October 2015. The 77 carefully reviewed papers include eight conferences: The Bratislava p…

Happy city: transforming our lives through urban design

by Montgomery, Charles

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"What really makes a good place to live? Journeying around the world from Copenhagen to Bogotá, Charles Montgomery shows that living in densely populated cities can actually make us healthier, saner and happier people. Happy City will change the way you feel about urban life."--…

Happy city: transforming our lives through urban design

by Montgomery, Charles

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"What really makes a good place to live? Journeying around the world from Copenhagen to Bogotá, Charles Montgomery shows that living in densely populated cities can actually make us healthier, saner and happier people. Happy City will change the way you feel about urban life."--…

The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place

by Halegoua, Germaine R.

fromCritical cultural communication

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Shows how digital media connects people to their lived environments Every day, millions of people turn to small handheld screens to search for their destinations and to seek recommendations for places to visit. They may share texts or images of themselves and these places en rou…

The digital city: media and the social production of place

by Halegoua, Germaine R.

fromCritical cultural communication

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"The Digital City advocates for the need to rethink our everyday interactions with digital infrastructures, navigation technologies, and social media as we move through the world. Drawing on five case studies from global and mid-sized cities to illustrate the concept of 're-plac…

Smart cities for dummies

by Reichental, Jonathan

fromLearning made easy

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Become empowered to build and maintain smarter citiesAt its core, a Smart City is a collection of technological responses to the growing demands, challenges, and complexities of improving the quality of life for billions of people now living in urban centers across the world.The…

The smart city in a digital world

by Mosco, Vincent

fromSocietyNow

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What makes a city smart? The Smart City in a Digital World takes on this question by describing, challenging, and offering democratic alternatives to the view that the answer begins and ends with technology. In the wake of the 2008 global financial meltdown, corporations converg…

Data as infrastructure for smart cities

by Suzuki, Larissa, Finkelstein, Anthony

fromIET book series on big data

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The book considers the following developments in smart cities and data infrastructures: urban intelligence; city data management; business strategies; services innovation; business models; and reference architecture framework.