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Smart City Emergence: Cases from around the World analyzes how smart cities are currently being conceptualized and implemented, examining the theoretical underpinnings and technologies that connect theory with tangible practice achievements. Using numerous cities from different regions around the globe, the book compares how smart cities of different sizes are evolving in different countries and continents. In addition, it examines the challenges cities face as they adopt the smart city concept, separating fact from fiction, with insights from scholars, government officials and vendors currently involved in smart city implementation.

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Author:   Leonidas Anthopoulos (Professor of Strategy and e-Business, School of Business and Economics, TEI of Thessaly, and Director, Postgraduate Program, Project and Program Management, Greece.)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Weight:   0.770kg
ISBN:  

9780128161692

ISBN 10:   0128161698
Pages:   484
Publication Date:   11 June 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"1. Forward 2. Introduction 3. Project Management Guidelines/Frameworks in the Era of Agility and Complexity 4. The smart city of Évora, Portugal 5. The smart city of Torino, Italy 6. The smart city of Leuven, Belgium 7. The smart city of Vienna, Austria 8. The smart city of Amsterdam: the Energy Atlas Project 9. The smart city of Trikala, Greece 10. The evolution of smart city policy of Korea 11. The smart city of Hangzhou, China: the case of Dream Town Internet village 12. The smart city of Changsha, China 13. Smart City evolution in India: the cases of Dehradun, Nagpur and Allahabad 14. The smart city of Pune, India 15. The Smart City of Nara, Japan 16. A smart city of Singapore – Is Singapore truly smart? 17. The Smart City of Newark, NJ: Data Analytics Platform for Economic Development and Policy 18. The Smart City That Might Be: Quayside, Toronto, Canada 19. The Brazilian Smart Cities: A National Literature Review and Cases Examples 20. Porto Alegre, Brazil: the smart health case of Gerint 21. Smart city of Algiers, Africa: defining its context 22. The smart city of Johannesburg, South Africa 23. Smart city of Tunisia, Africa 24. Conclusions: Putting ""Sustainable"" in Smart Cities"

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Leonidas Anthopoulos is Professor of e-Business and Strategy at the University of Thessaly, Greece. He also serves as a Mayor’s Special Advisor of the city of Trikala, Greece, responsible for the Municipality’s smart agenda. Furthermore, he is a member of the ITU SG20 and head of the smart city standardization group of the Greek Standards (ELOT). He has been working in the smart city domain since the early 2000’s. His research has been published in such Elsevier journals as Cities, Sustainable Cities and Society, Technological Forecasting and Social Change and Government Information Quarterly.

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