The empty rhetoric of the smart city: from digital inclusion to economic promotion in Philadelphia

Urban Geography

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 535-553

  Wiig, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

entrepreneurial urbanism; IBM; internet; Philadelphia; policy mobilities; smart city

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENTREPRENEUR; INTERNET; SMART CITY; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN POLICY;

PENNSYLVANIA; PHILADELPHIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84938631105     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2015.1065686     Document Type: Article

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