Diabetes, built environments and (un)healthy lifestyles:The potential of smart city technologies

Smart and Sustainable Built Environment

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 311-323

  Sidawi, Bhzad ^a   Deakin, Mark ^b  

^a IMAM ABDULRAHMAN BIN FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Smart city technologies; Smart neighbourhoods; Unhealthy lifestyles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993032693     PISSN: 20466099     EISSN: 20466102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/SASBE-05-2013-0025     Document Type: Article

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