书目名称 | Smart Cities as Democratic Ecologies | 编辑 | Daniel Araya | 视频video | | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | The concept of the ‘smart city‘ as the confluence of urban planning and technological innovation has become a predominant feature of public policy discourse. Despite its expanding influence, however, there is little consensus on the precise meaning of a ‘smart city‘. One reason for this ambiguity is that the term means different things to different disciplines. For some, the concept of the ‘smart city‘ refers to advances in sustainability and green technologies. For others, it refers to the deployment of information and communication technologies as next generation infrastructure. This volume focuses on a third strand in this discourse, specifically technology driven changes in democracy and civic engagement. In conjunction with issues related to power grids, transportation networks and urban sustainability, there is a growing need to examine the potential of ‘smart cities‘ as ‘democratic ecologies‘ for citizen empowerment and user-driven innovation. What is the potential of ‘smart cities‘ to become platforms for bottom-up civic engagement in the context of next generation communication, data sharing, and application development? What are the consequences of layering public spaces | 出版日期 | Book 2015 | 关键词 | community; democracy; Design; development; Figuration; governance; Government; research | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137377203 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-137-37720-3 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015 |
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