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TY - BOOK
T1 - The Little Book of Smart Cities
AU - Cavada, Marianna
AU - Hunt, Dexter
AU - Rogers, Chris
PY - 2017/11/2
Y1 - 2017/11/2
N2 - ‘Smart Cities’ forms part of the ‘Liveable Cities’ research project, a five year programme grant (2012 – 2017) whose vision is to transform the engineering of cities to deliver global and societal wellbeing within the context of low-carbon living and resource security. This little book explores what is actually meant by smart (cities). More importantly, it is about how, given a range of contexts and local conditions, we can make cities smart for everyone. This book, explores the following ideas:• To identify and elucidate different city typologies (Section 2)• To explore Smart Cities meaning(s) according to stakeholder groups (Section 3)• To identify world leading Smart City examples (Section 4)• To highlight contrast and compare Smart Initiatives in two UK cities (Section 5)• To identify, contrast and compare Smart Initiatives for Birmingham and London (Section 5.4)This ‘Little Book of Smart Cities’ offers a general picture to how we might better understand smartness and provides an overview of how smart cities are defined and implemented today.
AB - ‘Smart Cities’ forms part of the ‘Liveable Cities’ research project, a five year programme grant (2012 – 2017) whose vision is to transform the engineering of cities to deliver global and societal wellbeing within the context of low-carbon living and resource security. This little book explores what is actually meant by smart (cities). More importantly, it is about how, given a range of contexts and local conditions, we can make cities smart for everyone. This book, explores the following ideas:• To identify and elucidate different city typologies (Section 2)• To explore Smart Cities meaning(s) according to stakeholder groups (Section 3)• To identify world leading Smart City examples (Section 4)• To highlight contrast and compare Smart Initiatives in two UK cities (Section 5)• To identify, contrast and compare Smart Initiatives for Birmingham and London (Section 5.4)This ‘Little Book of Smart Cities’ offers a general picture to how we might better understand smartness and provides an overview of how smart cities are defined and implemented today.
M3 - Book
SN - 9780704429499
BT - The Little Book of Smart Cities
PB - University of Birmingham
CY - Birmingham
ER -