Getting smart about smart cities in Cape Town: Beyond the rhetoric

Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn?

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 71-87

  Odendaal, Nancy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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EID: 84960295107     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315730554     Document Type: Chapter

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