IBM’s smart city as techno-utopian policy mobility

City

Volumn 19, Issue 2-3, 2015, Pages 258-273

  Wiig, Alan ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

entrepreneurial city; IBM; Philadelphia; policy mobilities; smart city; urban governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926358998     PISSN: 13604813     EISSN: 14703629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1016275     Document Type: Article

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