The smart city in a digital world /

• Main Author: Mosco, Vincent (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.
• Series: SocietyNow.
• Subjects: Smart cities.; Smart cities > Social aspects.; Cities and towns > Effect of technological innovations on > Citizen participation.; Language Arts & Disciplines, Communication Studies.; Communication studies.

What makes a city smart? The Smart City in a Digital World takes on this question by describing, challenging, and offering democratic alternatives to the view that the answer begins and ends with technology. In the wake of the 2008 global financial meltdown, corporations converged on cities around t...