Smart Cities as Democratic Ecologies

✍ Scribed by Daniel Araya (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 282
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Smart Cities and the Network Society: Toward Commons-Driven Governance....Pages 11-22
Government’s Role in Growing a Smart City....Pages 23-34
Generative Cities: Innovative, Sustainable, Inclusive....Pages 35-42
Urban Research Machines: Engaging the Modern Urban Citizen through Public Creativity....Pages 43-63
Stories and Conversations in the Smart City....Pages 64-86
Are Creative and Green Cities Also Smart and Sustainable?....Pages 87-115
Urban Reconfiguration after the Emergence of Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure: Four Future Scenarios with an Impact on Smart Cities....Pages 116-124
Smart Cities: Toward the Surveillance Society?....Pages 125-141
Surviving the Electronic Panopticon: New Lessons in Democracy, Surveillance, and Community in Young Adult Fiction....Pages 142-158
Smart City Needs Smart People: Songdo and Smart + Connected Learning....Pages 159-172
Experiments with Smart Zoning for Smart Cities....Pages 173-199
New Mobilities for Accessible Cities: Toward Scenarios for Seamless Journeys....Pages 200-218
ExtraUrbia, or, the Reconfiguration of Spaces and Flows in a Time of Spatial-Financial Crisis....Pages 219-246
Back Matter....Pages 247-258

✦ Subjects

Science, general

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