Smart Cities: Issues and Challenges: Mapping Political, Social and Economic Risks and Threats Anna Visvizi (Editor)

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0128166398
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0128166390
• Author(s): Anna Visvizi

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.

• Combines conceptual academic approaches with empirically-driven insights and best practices
• Offers new approaches and arguments from inter and multi-disciplinary perspectives
• Provides foundational knowledge and comparative insight from global case-studies that enable critical reflection and operationalization
• Generates policy recommendations that pave the way to debate and case-based planning

Table contents:

Chapter 1. Smart cities research and debate: what is in there?
Part 1. Managing public space: democracy, participation, well-being
Chapter 2. Democracy and governance in the smart city
Chapter 3. Civic participation in smart cities: the role of social media
Chapter 4. Citizen participation in the design of smart cities: methods and management framework
Chapter 5. Smart city as a platform economy: civic engagement and self-employment in focus
Chapter 6. Understanding sentiments and activities in green spaces using a social data–driven approach
Part 2. Safety, security, resilience
Chapter 7. Smart city is a safe city: information and communication technology–enhanced urban space monitoring and surveillance systems: the promise and limitations
Chapter 8. Risks, hazards, and disasters: can a smart city be resilient?
Chapter 9. Smart city as a steering center of the region’s sustainable development and competitiveness
Chapter 10. Smart cities and the search for global talent
Chapter 12. How can artificial intelligence respond to smart cities challenges?
Chapter 13. A framework of essential requirements for the development of smart cities: Riyadh city as an example
Chapter 14. Definition of public safety policies based on the characterization of criminal events using volunteered geographic information, case study: Mexico
Chapter 15. An outlook of a future smart city in Taiwan from post–Internet of things to artificial intelligence Internet of things
Chapter 16. Smart energy in smart cities: insights from the smart meter rollout in the United Kingdom
Chapter 17. Smart city vision and practices across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia—a review
Chapter 18. Reflecting on oikos and agora in smart cities context: concluding remarks
Index

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