Understanding Smart Cities: A Tool for Smart Government or an Industrial Trick?

Leonidas G Anthopoulos author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:25th Jul '18

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Understanding Smart Cities: A Tool for Smart Government or an Industrial Trick? cover

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 era 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 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.

ISBN: 9783319860572

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 4745g

293 pages

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017