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Smart cities tend to represent the information, communication, and technological ict industry alone without considering the values and cultural and historical profiles that some cities hold as legacies. The 10 best smart city books explaining the future of urban living. Townsend positively drives the reader to think about the wider implications of smart city technologies for understanding our cities better on the one hand through a new city science for example to building new forms of urban governance and. Our website helps the smart cities rephrase the definition of government by addressing the. This book provides theoretical perspectives and practical experiences on smart governance for smart cities. Jun 30, 2017 this book provides the basics of smart cities, and it examines the possible future trends of this technology.
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