Rethinking Smart Cities

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· Edward Elgar Publishing
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180
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This innovative book explores the foundations of the smart city and, through a critique of its challenges and concerns, showcases how to redefine the concept for increased sustainability, liveability and resilience in urban areas. It undertakes a review of the smart city concept, providing a new perspective on how technology-based urban solutions must be centred around human dimensions to render more liveable urban fabrics.

About the author

Zaheer Allam, Chaire Entrepreneuriat Territoire Innovation, IAE Paris – Sorbonne Business School, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France and Yusra Raisah Takun, Live+Smart Research Laboratory, School of Architecture and Built Environment, Deakin University, Australia

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