The Camfield estates-MIT creating community connections project: Strategies for active participation in a low- to moderate-income community

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2362, Issue , 2002, Pages 110-124

  Pinkett, Randal D ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOUSING; MODEMS; SMART CITY;

COMMUNITY BUILDINGS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; HIGH-SPEED INTERNET CONNECTION; HOUSING DEVELOPMENT; MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; STATE OF THE ART; TELECOM SERVICES; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 33645420424     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45636-8_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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