The significance of digital data systems for smart city policy

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue , 2017, Pages 13-21

  Kourtit, Karima ^a,b   Nijkamp, Peter ^a,b,c   Steenbruggen, John ^d  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Big data; Digital data; Mobile phone data; Smart city; Urban Facebook; Urban piazza; Urbanisation

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIGITIZATION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; MOBILE PHONE; SMART CITY; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; URBAN AREA; URBAN POLICY; URBANIZATION;

EID: 85007040186     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2016.10.001     Document Type: Article

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