The techno-politics of data and smart devolution in city-regions: Comparing glasgow, bristol, barcelona, and bilbao

Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Calzada, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

City regions; Dataism; Governance; Multi stakeholders; Penta helix; Smart cities; Smart citizens; Smart devolution; Techno politics of data

Indexed keywords

EID: 85111470459     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20798954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/systems5010018     Document Type: Article

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