Smart cities and the politics of urban data

Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn?

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 16-33

  Kitchin, Rob ^a   Lauriault, Tracey P ^a,b   McArdle, Gavin ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Smarter Cities Technology Centre   (Ireland)

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EID: 84960204603     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315730554     Document Type: Chapter

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