Smart sustainable cities: Definition and challenges

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

Volumn 310, Issue , 2014, Pages 333-349

  Höjer, Mattias ^a   Wangel, Josefin ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Definition of sustainability; ICT; Smart city; Sustainable city; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

ICT; SMART CITIES; SUSTAINABLE CITIES;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84927610783     PISSN: 21945357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09228-7_20     Document Type: Article

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