Smart cities: Utopia or neoliberal ideology?

Cities

Volumn 69, Issue , 2017, Pages 79-85

  Grossi, Giuseppe ^a   Pianezzi, Daniela ^b  

^a KRISTIANSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hermeneutics; Ideology; Neoliberalism; Smart city; Utopia

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; IDEOLOGY; NEOLIBERALISM; SMART CITY; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLITICS;

GENOA; GENOVA; ITALY; LIGURIA;

EID: 85025826141     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2017.07.012     Document Type: Article

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