Smarter than Smart: Rio de Janeiro's Flawed Emergence as a Smart City

Journal of Urban Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 47-64

  Gaffney, Christopher ^a   Robertson, Cerianne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Head of Media Technologies for the NGO Catalytic Communities   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Olympics; Rio de Janeiro; smart cities; urban systems; World Cup

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ANALYSIS; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; OLYMPIC GAMES; SMART CITY; URBAN SYSTEM;

BRAZIL; RIO DE JANEIRO [BRAZIL]; RIO DE JANEIRO [RIO DE JANEIRO (STT)];

EID: 84964621948     PISSN: 10630732     EISSN: 14661853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2015.1102423     Document Type: Article

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