Making (in) the smart city: The emergence of makerspaces

Telematics and Informatics

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1143-1152

  Niaros, Vasilis ^a,b   Kostakis, Vasilis ^a,b   Drechsler, Wolfgang ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b P2P Foundation   (Greece)

Author keywords

Learning; Makerspaces; Sharing economy; Smart city; Technology governance; Urban communities

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING EDUCATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; PERSONAL COMPUTING; URBAN GROWTH;

COMMUNITY BUILDINGS; INNOVATION POTENTIAL; LEARNING; MAKERSPACES; MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES; SECONDARY SOURCES; SHARING ECONOMY; URBAN COMMUNITY;

SMART CITY;

EID: 85019393330     PISSN: 07365853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tele.2017.05.004     Document Type: Article

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