Understanding smart cities : a tool for smart government or an industrial trick? / Leonidas G. Anthopoulos.
Material type: TextSeries: Public administration and information technology ; v. 22.Publication details: Cham : Springer, c2017.Description: xiii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 351
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Book - 7-day loan | CYA Library Main Collection | 351 ANT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00000010668 |
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.