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issues and challenges : mapping political, social and economic risks and threats
Smart Cities: Issues and Challenges: Mapping Political, Social and Economic Risks and Threats serves as a primer on smart cities, providing readers with no prior knowledge on smart cities with an understanding of the current smart cities debates. Gathering cutting-edge research and insights from academics, practitioners and policymakers around the globe, it identifies and discusses the nascent threats and challenges contemporary urban areas face, highlighting the drivers and ways of navigating these issues in an effective manner. Uniquely providing a blend of conceptual academic analysis with empirical insights, the book produces policy recommendations that boost urban sustainability and resilience.
Smart cities research and debate: what is in there? -- Democracy and governance in the smart city -- Civic participation in smart cities: the role of social media -- Citizen participation in the design of smart cities: methods and management framework -- Smart city as a platform economy: civic engagement and self-employment in focus -- Understanding sentiments and activities in green spaces using a social data-driven approach -- Smart city is a safe city: information and communication technology enhanced urban space monitoring and surveillance systems: the promise and limitations -- Risks, hazards, and disasters: can a smart city be resilient? -- Smart city as a steering center of the region's sustainable development and competitiveness -- Smart cities and the search for global talent -- Knowledge society technologies for smart cities development -- How can artificial intelligence respond to smart cities challenges? -- A framework of essential requirements for the development of smart cities: Riyadh city as an example -- Definition of public safety policies based on the characterization of criminal events using volunteered geographic information, case study: Mexico -- An outlook of a future smart city in Taiwan from post-Internet of things to artificial intelligence Internet of things -- Smart energy in smart cities: insights from the smart meter rollout in the United Kingdom -- Smart city vision and practices across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia -- a review -- Reflecting on oikos and agora in smart cities context: concluding remarks.
edited by Anna Visvizi, Miltiadis D. Lytras.
Includes bibliographical references and index.