Building a smart city: Lessons from Barcelona

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 50-57

  Gascó Hernandez, Mila ^a,b  

^a Center for Technology in Government   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 85045284357     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/3117800     Document Type: Article

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