Speculative futures: Cities, data, and governance beyond smart urbanism

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1691-1708

  Leszczynski, Agnieszka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Algorithmic governance; big data; future; security; smart cities

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; SECURITY; SMART CITY;

EID: 84981285624     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308518X16651445     Document Type: Article

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