Smarter as the New Urban Agenda
A Comprehensive View of the 21st Century City
Editors: Gil-Garcia, J. Ramon, Pardo, Theresa A., Nam, Taewoo (Eds.)
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This book will provide one of the first comprehensive approaches to the study of smart city governments with theories and concepts for understanding and researching 21st century city governments innovative methodologies for the analysis and evaluation of smart city initiatives. The term “smart city” is now generally used to represent efforts that in different ways describe a comprehensive vision of a city for the present and future. A smarter city infuses information into its physical infrastructure to improve conveniences, facilitate mobility, add efficiencies, conserve energy, improve the quality of air and water, identify problems and fix them quickly, recover rapidly from disasters, collect data to make better decisions, deploy resources effectively and share data to enable collaboration across entities and domains. These and other similar efforts are expected to make cities more intelligent in terms of efficiency, effectiveness, productivity, transparency, and sustainability, among other important aspects. Given this changing social, institutional and technology environment, it seems feasible and likeable to attain smarter cities and by extension, smarter governments: virtually integrated, networked, interconnected, responsive, and efficient. This book will help build the bridge between sound research and practice expertise in the area of smarter cities and will be of interest to researchers and students in the e-government, public administration, political science, communication, information science, administrative sciences and management, sociology, computer science, and information technology. As well as government officials and public managers who will find practical recommendations based on rigorous studies that will contain insights and guidance for the development, management, and evaluation of complex smart cities and smart government initiatives.
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A Comprehensive View of the 21st Century City: Smartness as Technologies and Innovation in Urban Contexts
Pages 1-19
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Exploring the Nature of the Smart Cities Research Landscape
Pages 23-47
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Characterizing the Role of Governments in Smart Cities: A Literature Review
Pages 49-71
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Smart City Governance: A Local Emergent Perspective
Pages 73-85
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Rethinking Learning in the Smart City: Innovating Through Involvement, Inclusivity, and Interactivities with Emerging Technologies
Pages 87-107
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Smarter as the New Urban Agenda
- Book Subtitle
- A Comprehensive View of the 21st Century City
- Editors
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- J. Ramon Gil-Garcia
- Theresa A. Pardo
- Taewoo Nam
- Series Title
- Public Administration and Information Technology
- Series Volume
- 11
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-17620-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-17620-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-17619-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-35442-2
- Series ISSN
- 2512-1812
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXII, 392
- Topics