The ethics of smart cities and urban science

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 374, Issue 2083, 2016, Pages

  Kitchin, Rob ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Big data; Dataveillance; Ethics; Privacy; Smart cities; Urban science

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DATA PRIVACY; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REGIONAL PLANNING;

DATAVEILLANCE; ETHICAL PRINCIPLES; ETHICS; INSTRUMENTAL RATIONALITIES; PERNICIOUS EFFECT; SMART CITIES; URBAN INFORMATICS; URBAN SCIENCE;

BIG DATA;

EID: 85001086941     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0115     Document Type: Article

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