Shaping Smart for Better Cities - 9780128186367

Shaping Smart for Better CitiesRethinking and Shaping Relationships between Urban Space and Digital Technologies\nAuthor(s): Alessandro Aurigi, Nancy Odendaal\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc, United States\nImprint: Academic Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780128186367, 978-0128186367\nSynopsis\nShaping 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 universi.