Innovating for an ageing society: Insights from two Japanese smart cities

Inside Smart Cities: Place, Politics and Urban Innovation

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 258-274

  Trencher, Gregory ^a   Karvonen, Andrew ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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EID: 85062739628     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781351166201-17     Document Type: Chapter

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