Description
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 of Contents
1. Smart cities: emerging issues and challengesPart I: Safety and Security2. ICTs'-enhanced urban space monitoring & surveillance systems3. Public Safety Policies using Volunteered Geographic Information4. Managing Public Health in Smart CitiesPart II: Managing public space: democracy, participation, decision-making5. Civic participation and social media6. Knowledge society technologies for Smart Cities development7. Bridging the virtual and the real in smart cities: smart cities' tangible public spacePart III: Well-being and social inclusion8. Challenges and limitation of smart cities' (re)-design and applications9. Well-being and mental health 10. Sustainable development in the Smart Cities ecosystem11. Politics of Support in Big IS ProjectsPart IV: Global contexts12. Smart cities diplomacy13. Smart city as a steering regional competitiveness and sustainable development 14. Re-thinking the migration-smart city nexus15. involuntary Smart city migration re-considered
