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How Smart Is Your City?

Technological Innovation, Ethics and Inclusiveness

  • Presents the concept of smart city in correspondence to a wise and sustainable approach where the well-being of the common citizen whatever their age or physical status is a priority
  • Follows a multidisciplinary approach adopting a people-centred, age- gender- and culture-responsive stance to urban development and technological innovation
  • Aims to contribute to the definition of urban ecosystems that are driven by the citizens’ collective and individual well-being, respecting human rights in a process where no one can “be left behind”

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. The Right to the City: The Right to Live with Dignity

    • Maria Isabel Aldinhas Ferreira
    Pages 17-25
  3. Algorithmic Cities: A Dystopic or Utopic Future?

    • Miguel de Castro Neto, Tiago de Melo Cartaxo
    Pages 59-73
  4. Robots in Smart Cities

    • Matthew E. Studley, Hannah Little
    Pages 75-88
  5. Technological Approaches to Cultural Heritage—Lessons from ROCK

    • Anthony Colclough, Cécile Houpert
    Pages 89-102
  6. Stockholm—Smart City

    • Gustaf Landahl
    Pages 127-144
  7. Creating a Smart Ecosystem in Lisbon

    • David Cunha
    Pages 145-160
  8. Being Smart in the Context of a Crisis: Ethical Paradoxes

    • Maria Isabel Aldinhas Ferreira
    Pages 161-168

About this book

This book focuses on the potential benefits that the so-called smart technologies have been bringing to the urban reality and to the management and governance of the city, simultaneously highlighting the necessity for its responsible and ethically guided deployment, respecting essential humanistic values.

The urban ecosystem has been, in the last decades, the locus to where the most advanced forms of technological innovation converge, creating intelligent management platforms meant to produce models of energy, water consumption, mobility/transportation, waste management and efficient cities.

Due to the coincidence of the punctual overlap of its own genesis with the pandemics outbreak, the present book came to embody both the initial dream and desire of an intelligent city place of innovation, development and equity – a dream present in most of the chapters – and the fear not just of the pandemics per se, but of the consequences that this may have for the character ofthe intelligent city and for the nature of its relationship with its dwellers that, like a mother, it is supposed to nurture, shelter and protect.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Maria Isabel Aldinhas Ferreira

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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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