| Title |
The Advent of the Smart City, from Flow Management to Event Control |
| ID_Doc |
38854 |
| Authors |
Picon, A |
| Title |
The Advent of the Smart City, from Flow Management to Event Control |
| Year |
2015 |
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| DOI |
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| Abstract |
What is it that makes a city 'smart'? While the expression 'smart city' is American in origin, the reflections and experimentation to which it refers are not the preserve of a single country or culture; far from it. They are emerging everywhere: in Korea as well as in the United States, and in France and Spain along with the United Kingdom and Scandinavia. Though it may spontaneously spark off thoughts of metropolises at the cutting edge of technology such as London, New York and Singapore, it also concerns many other towns. IBM's Smarter Cities Challenge, which aims to promote the technological solutions conceived by the company to improve urban administration and services, embraces around a hundred cities, including a number of medium-sized ones such as Faro in Portugal and Syracuse in Sicily. This IBM initiative ignores the dividing line between rich and developing countries. Consequently, Ahmedabad in India and Medellin in Colombia feature among the list of towns concerned by the Challenge. 1 An estimated total of nearly 39.5 billion American dollars of investment is due to be made in the field of smart cities in 2016, compared with a total of just 8.1 billion in 2010.(2) |
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| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Book Citation Index – Social Sciences & Humanities (BKCI-SSH) |
| EID |
WOS:000384240700002 |
| WoS Category |
Architecture; Urban Studies |
| Research Area |
Architecture; Urban Studies |
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