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Sustainable Smart Cities - Creating Spaces for Technological, Social and Business Development (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Sustainable Smart Cities - Creating Spaces for Technological, Social and Business Development (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management
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This volume provides the most current research on smart cities.
Specifically, it focuses on the economic development and
sustainability of smart cities and examines how to transform older
industrial cities into sustainable smart cities. It aims to
identify the role of the following elements in the creation and
management of smart cities:* Citizen participation and empowerment
* Value creation mechanisms * Public administration* Quality of
life and sustainability* Democracy* ICT* Private initiatives and
entrepreneurship Regardless of their size, all cities are
ultimately agglomerations of people and institutions. Agglomeration
economies make it possible to attain minimum efficiencies of scale
in the organization and delivery of services. However, the economic
benefits do not constitute the main advantage of a city. A city's
status rests on three dimensions: (1) political impetus, which is
the result of citizens' participation and the public
administration's agenda; (2) applications derived from
technological advances (especially in ICT); and (3) cooperation
between public and private initiatives in business development and
entrepreneurship. These three dimensions determine which resources
are necessary to create smart cities. But a smart city, ideal in
the way it channels and resolves technological, social and
economic-growth issues, requires many additional elements to
function at a high-performance level, such as culture (an
environment that empowers and engages citizens) and physical
infrastructure designed to foster competition and collaboration,
encourage new ideas and actions, and set the stage for new business
creation. Featuring contributions with models, tools and cases from
around the world, this book will be a valuable resource for
researchers, students, academics, professionals and policymakers
interested in smart cities.
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