Cyber Cities: Social Media as a Tool for Understanding Cities

Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 231-247

  Arribas Bel, Daniel ^a   Kourtit, Karima ^b,c   Nijkamp, Peter ^c,d   Steenbruggen, John ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Digital technology; ICT; Internet geography; Smart city; Social buzz; Twitter; New Urban World

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL MAPPING; INTERNET; MACHINE LEARNING; MODERNIZATION; SMART CITY; SOCIAL NETWORK; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY;

AMSTERDAM [NORTH HOLLAND]; NETHERLANDS; NORTH HOLLAND;

EID: 84945476080     PISSN: 1874463X     EISSN: 18744621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12061-015-9154-2     Document Type: Article

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