Smart Cities: Issues and Challenges: Mapping Political, Social and Economic Risks and Threats serves as a primer on smart cities, providing readers with no prior knowledge on smart cities with an understanding of the current smart cities debates. Gathering cutting-edge research and insights from academics, practitioners and policymakers around the globe, it identifies and discusses the nascent threats and challenges contemporary urban areas face, highlighting the drivers and ways of navigating these issues in an effective manner. Uniquely providing a blend of conceptual academic analysis with empirical insights, the book produces policy recommendations that boost urban sustainability and resilience.
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Table of Contents
1. Smart cities: emerging issues and challenges
Part I: Safety and Security 2. ICTs'-enhanced urban space monitoring & surveillance systems 3. Public Safety Policies using Volunteered Geographic Information 4. Managing Public Health in Smart Cities
Part II: Managing public space: democracy, participation, decision-making 5. Civic participation and social media 6. Knowledge society technologies for Smart Cities development 7. Bridging the virtual and the real in smart cities: smart cities' tangible public space
Part III: Well-being and social inclusion 8. Challenges and limitation of smart cities' (re)-design and applications 9. Well-being and mental health 10. Sustainable development in the Smart Cities ecosystem 11. Politics of Support in Big IS Projects
Part IV: Global contexts 12. Smart cities diplomacy 13. Smart city as a steering regional competitiveness and sustainable development 14. Re-thinking the migration-smart city nexus 15. involuntary Smart city migration re-considered