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Understanding smart cities : a tool for smart government or an industrial trick? / Leonidas G. Anthopoulos.

By:

Anthopoulos, Leonidas G [author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Public administration and information technology ; v. 22.Publication details: Cham : Springer, c2017.Description: xiii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

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Electronic books.

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Contents:

Prologue -- The rise of the Smart City -- Smart City in Practice -- The smart city market -- Governing a smart city -- Smart Government -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Index.

Summary: "This book investigates the role of smart cities in the broader context of urban innovation and e-government, identifies what a smart city is in practice and highlights their importance to the welfare of society. The book offers specific, measurable, and action-oriented public sector planning and management principles and ideas for smart governance in the ear of global urbanization and innovation to help with the challenges in maintaining the democratic system of checks and balances as well as the division of powers in a highly interconnected world. The book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, students, and public sector IT professionals that work within innovation management, public administration, urban technologies and urban innovation, and public local administration studies."-- Publisher's description.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book - 7-day loan	CYA Library Main Collection	351 ANT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000010668

Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue -- The rise of the Smart City -- Smart City in Practice -- The smart city market -- Governing a smart city -- Smart Government -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Index.

"This book investigates the role of smart cities in the broader context of urban innovation and e-government, identifies what a smart city is in practice and highlights their importance to the welfare of society. The book offers specific, measurable, and action-oriented public sector planning and management principles and ideas for smart governance in the ear of global urbanization and innovation to help with the challenges in maintaining the democratic system of checks and balances as well as the division of powers in a highly interconnected world. The book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, students, and public sector IT professionals that work within innovation management, public administration, urban technologies and urban innovation, and public local administration studies."-- Publisher's description.