Overview
- Uses case studies from the African continent to help readers understand how smart economies can change urban spatial systems
- Presents studies to demonstrate how smart cities are sustainable, inclusive, and prosperous
- Highlights how smart cities promote greener and lower carbon environments
Part of the book series: Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements (ACHS)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Prof. Oyebanji Oyeyinka is the former Director of the UN-Habitat’s Regional Office for Africa and formerDirector of its Monitoring and Research Division and Senior Scientific Advisor to the Executive Director. Prior to joining the UN-Habitat, Prof. Oyeyinka was a Professor and remains a professorial fellow at the United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) until December 2006. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Open University, UK. He worked with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) as a Senior Economic Affairs Officer and coordinating the 10-year review of the least developed countries (LDCs). Prior to that he was a Professor at the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Ibadan, Nigeria. Professor Oyeyinka obtained his D.Phil. in Technology Policy and Industrialization from the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex, Masters in Engineering from the University of Toronto after a First Class (Honours) degree from the University of Ife, Nigeria. He has done considerable work on information and communication technologies (ICTs) and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and clusters within the systems of innovation framework. He is an author as well as a joint-author to several books, the most recent being "Structural Transformation and Economic Development: Cross-regional analysis of Urbanization and Industrialization"; UK: Routledge, 2016.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Smart Economy in Smart African Cities
Book Subtitle: Sustainable, Inclusive, Resilient and Prosperous
Editors: Gora Mboup, Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka
Series Title: Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3471-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3470-2Published: 05 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-3471-9Published: 21 February 2019
Series ISSN: 2198-2546
Series E-ISSN: 2198-2554
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 492
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 141 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Development and Sustainability, Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Urban Economics, Physical Geography