In 15 similarly structured chapters, Transitioning to Smart Cities: Mapping Political, Economic, and Social 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 policy-makers around the globe, Transitioning to Smart Cities identifies and discusses the nascent threats and challenges contemporary urban areas face, highlighting the drivers and ways of navigating these issues in an effective way. Uniquely providing a blend of conceptual academic analysis with empirical insights, Transitioning to Smart Cities produces policy recommendations that boost urban sustainability and resilience. With the multiplicity of qualitatively new issues and developments in these debates, Transitioning to Smart Cities offer an invaluable framework on current developments shaping today and tomorrow's urban. Combines conceptual academic approaches with empirically-driven, practical insights and best practicesOffers new approaches and arguments from inter and multi-disciplinary perspectivesProvides foundational knowledge and comparative insight from global case-studies that enable critical reflection and operationalizationGenerates policy recommendations that pave the way to debate and case-based planning INDICE: 1. Smart cities: emerging issues and challenges Part I: Safety and Security 2. ICTs'-enhanced urban space monitoring & surveillance systems 3. Public Safety Policies using Volunteered Geographic Information 4. Managing Public Health in Smart Cities Part II: Managing public space: democracy, participation, decision-making 5. Civic participation and social media 6. Knowledge society technologies for Smart Cities development 7. Bridging the virtual and the real in smart cities: smart cities' tangible public space Part III: Well-being and social inclusion 8. challenges and limitation of smart cities' (re)-design and applications 9. Well-being and mental health: 10. Sustainable development in the Smart Cities ecosystem 11. Politics of Support in Big IS Projects Part IV: Global contexts 12. Smart cities diplomacy 13. Smart city as a steering regional competitiveness and sustainable development 14. Re-thinking the migration-smart city nexus 15. involuntary Smart city migration re-considered
- ISBN: 978-0-12-816639-0
- Editorial: Elsevier
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2019
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés