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The Making of a Smart City in Korea: The Quest for E-Seoul displays how the notion of the smart city has been interpreted and applied in Seoul—the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. The contributors show how a shift into a digital city has brought about noticeable changes in the governance, economics, and cultures of Seoul.
This edited volume on the Seoul Metropolitan Government's quest for e-Seoul provides great resources for many cities worldwide seeking to benchmark this particular type of smart city, as well as for all those academics in the fields to learn it, given that Seoul has systematically pushed different stages and strategies of the smart urbanization.
Contents
Contents
Introduction, Hojeong Lee, Jaehyeon Jeong, and Joong-Hwan Oh
Part I: Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Development of a Smart City
Chapter 1. The Local Business Analysis Service for Service-Oriented Government: Seoul Metropolitan Government Case, June-Suh Cho and KwangJong Ahn
Chapter 2. Can Social Media Increase Government Responsiveness? A Case Study of Seoul, Korea, Seok-Jin Eom, Hanchan Hwang, and Jun Houng Kim
Chapter 3. Seoul, City of Sharing and Collaboration: The Rise of an Urban Ecosystem of Social Innovation, Monica Bernardi
Part II: Placemaking for E-Seoul: Network Governance, Art, and Tourism
Chapter 4. Toward Sustainable Governance: Strategic Analysis of the Smart City Seoul Portal in Korea, Yejin Yoo
Chapter 5. Developmentalist Smart Cities? The Cases of Singapore and Seoul, Yu-Min Joo
Chapter 6. Arts and Cultural/Creative Activities as Creative Placemaking Strategy in a Newly Built Urban District: The Case of Seoul Digital Media City (DMC), Junmin Song
Chapter 7. Th
