Creating Smart-er Cities

Author:   Mark Deakin (Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138798441


Pages:   112
Publication Date:   23 June 2014
Format:   Paperback
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"Drawing upon the smart experiences of ""world class"" cities in North America, Canada and Europe, this book provides the evidence to show how entrepreneurship-based and market-dependent representations of knowledge production are now being replaced with a community of policy makers, academic leaders, corporate strategists and growth management alliances, with the potential to liberate cities from the stagnation which they have previously been locked into by offering communities: the freedom to develop polices, with the leadership and strategies capable of reaching beyond the idea of ""creative slack""; a process of reinvention, whereby cities become ""smarter,"" in using intellectual capital to not only meet the efficiency requirements of wealth creation, but to become centres of creative slack; the political leadership capable of not only being economically innovative, or culturally creative, but enterprising in opening-up, reflexively absorbing and discursively shaping the democratic governance of such developments; the democratic governance to sustain such developments. Drawing together the critical insights from papers from a collection of leading international experts on the transition to smart cities, this book proposes to do what has recently been asked of those responsible for creating Smarter Cities. That is: provide the definitional components, critical insights and institutional means by which to get beyond the all too often self-congratulatory tone cities across the world strike when claiming to be smart and by focussing on the critical role master-plans and design codes play in supporting the sustainable development of communities. This book was published as a special issue of Urban Technology."

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Author:   Mark Deakin (Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.204kg
ISBN:  

9781138798441


ISBN 10:   1138798444
Pages:   112
Publication Date:   23 June 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Creating Smart-er Cities: An Overview 2. The IntelCities Community of Practice: The Capacity-Building, Co-Design, Evaluation, and Monitoring of E-Government Services 3. The Business Models and Information Architectures of Smart Cities 4. The Triple-Helix Model of Smart Cities: A Neo-Evolutionary Perspective 5. Smart Cities in Europe 6. SCRAN: The Network

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Mark Deakin is Professor of Built Environment in the School of Engineering and Built Environment, Edinburgh Napier University. He is also head of the Centre for Sustainable Communities in the Institute for Sustainable Construction, at Edinburgh Napier University. His research focuses on sustainable urban development, intelligent cities, smart cities and communities.

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