Shaping Smart for Better Cities: Rethinking and Shaping Relationships between Urban Space and Digital Technologies
By: and
Sign Up Now!
Already a Member? Log In
You must be logged into UK education collection to access this title.
Learn about membership options,
or view our freely available titles.
- Synopsis
- Shaping Smart for Better Cities powerfully demonstrates the range of theoretical and practical challenges, opportunities and success factors involved in successfully deploying digital technologies in cities, focusing on the importance of recognizing local context and multi-layered urban relationships in designing successful urban interventions. The first section, ‘Rethinking Smart (in) Places’ interrogates the smart city from a theoretical vantage point. The second part, ‘Shaping Smart Places’ examines various case studies critically. Hence the volume offers an intellectual resource that expands on the current literature, but also provides a pedagogical resource to universities as well as a reflective opportunity for practitioners. The cases allow for an examination of the practical implications of smart interventions in space, whilst the theoretical reflections enable expansion of the literature. Students are encouraged to learn from case studies and apply that learning in design. Academics will gain from the learning embedded in the documentation of the case studies in different geographic contexts, while practitioners can apply their learning to the conceptualisation of new forms of technology use.Demonstrates how to adapt smart urban interventions for hyper-local context in geographic parameters, spatial relationships, and socio-political characteristicsProvides a problem-solving approach based on specific smart place examples, applicable to real-life urban managementOffers insights from numerous case studies of smart cities interventions in real civic spaces
- Copyright:
- 2021
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 434 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780128187449
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780128186367
- Publisher:
- Elsevier Science
- Date of Addition:
- 03/14/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Elsevier Science & Technology
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Nancy Odendaal
- Edited by:
- Alessandro Aurigi
Reviews
Other Books
- by Nancy Odendaal
- by Alessandro Aurigi
- in Nonfiction
- in Social Studies
- in Sociology