Understanding Smart Cities: A Tool for Smart Government or an Industrial Trick? / / by Leonidas G. Anthopoulos

• Autore: Anthopoulos Leonidas G
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2017.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XV, 293 p. 102 illus., 101 illus. in color.)
• Disciplina: 307.1216
• Soggetto topico: Public administration; Economic policy; Public policy; Public Administration; R & D/Technology Policy; Public Policy
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: Prologue -- The rise of the Smart City -- Smart City in Practice -- The smart city market -- Governing a smart city -- Smart Government -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book investigates the role of smart cities in the broader context of urban innovation and e-government, identifies what a smart city is in practice and highlights their importance to the welfare of society. The book offers specific, measurable, and action-oriented public sector planning and management principles and ideas for smart governance in the era of global urbanization and innovation to help with the challenges in maintaining the democratic system of checks and balances as well as the division of powers in a highly interconnected world. The book will be of interest researchers, practitioners, students, and public sector IT professionals that work within innovation management, public administration, urban technologies and urban innovation, and public local administration studies.
• Titolo autorizzato: Understanding Smart Cities: A Tool for Smart Government or an Industrial Trick
• ISBN: 3-319-57015-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910255029003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Public Administration and Information Technology, . 2512-1812 ; ; 22