Creating Smart Cities

by Leighton Evans and Rob Kitchin

Book Overview

In cities around the world, digital technologies are utilized to manage city services and infrastructures, to govern urban life, to solve urban issues and to drive local and regional economies. While "smart city" advocates are keen to promote the benefits of smart urbanism - increased efficiency, sustainability, resilience, competitiveness, safety and security - critics point to the negative effects, such as the production of technocratic governance,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815396244
• ISBN13: 9780815396246
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"