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• Title:Smart cities : reality or fiction / Claude Rochet.
  
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• Author/Creator:Rochet, Claude, author.
  
• Published/Created:London, UK : ISTE Ltd ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HT166 .R63 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Cities and towns--Technological innovations.
  City planning--Technological innovations.
  Information technology--Economic aspects.
  
• Description:xx, 206 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  
• Series:Information systems, web and pervasive computing series.
  
• Notes:"Series editor, Jean-Charles Pomerol" - title page.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:1786302993 hardback
  9781786302991 hardback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 What Do We Mean by "Smart City" and Where Does This Idea Come From?
  1.1. Not-so-smart smart cities!
  1.2. smoke and mirrors of smart cities
  1.3. Other mirrors for other smoke: cities of the creative classes
  1.4. So what is a "smart city"?
  ch. 2 Challenges of Urban Development in the Context of the Third Industrial Revolution
  2.1. demographic and economic challenges: toward a change in economic model
  2.2. Geopolitical challenges: the polar shift in development in favor of the south-west and the different strategies among industrialized and emerging countries
  2.3. Energy transfer: the fossil fuel curse is not about to disappear
  2.4. six breakthroughs in urban development based on smart cities
  ch. 3 What Makes a City Smart?
  3.1. Lessons from medieval cities
  3.1.1. Architect-less cities?
  3.1.2. How do cities become unintelligent?
  3.2. city is a system of life
  3.3. Smart territory
  3.3.1. Territory: an immaterial asset
  3.3.2. territory secretes innovation (and not the other way around)
  3.3.3. territorial dynamic in action
  3.4. Are metropolises smart territories?
  3.5. city is not a collection of smarties
  3.5.1. city is a living system
  3.5.2. which we understand today through new approaches
  3.5.3. at the heart of which the sciences of complexity
  3.5.4. help conjugate internal semi-stability and external instability
  3.6. dangers of a technocentric approach
  ch. 4 New Sciences of Cities
  4.1. more or less sympathetic myths of the ideal city
  4.2. city is an unbalanced system
  4.2.1. Definition of an urban ecosystem
  4.2.2. city is a system in incomplete equilibrium
  4.2.3. What is a city's optimal size?
  4.2.4. Size and inequalities are correlated
  4.3. Smart city: an autopoietic system
  4.4. city must be designed as a "system of systems"
  4.4.1. Modeling
  4.4.2. Emergence
  4.4.3. Evolution inside: the urban lifecycle management
  4.4.4. System architecture as a frame of representation
  4.4.5. design method
  4.4.6. Integration process: more efficiency for less
  4.4.7. Integrating heterogeneous systems
  ch. 5 Smart City in Action
  5.1. Two cities that should not exist: Norilsk and Singapore
  5.1.1. Norilsk, the most polluted and polluting city in the world
  5.1.2. Singapore, the smart nation
  5.2. Pilot projects
  5.2.1. African city
  5.2.2. emergence of a territorial project through meaning: the case of Rhamna, in Morocco
  5.2.3. Casablanca as a prototype for remedying to the tentacular growth of cities
  5.2.4. Angola, Namibia: eco-design of a drinking water supply
  5.2.5. Urban problem and economic transition: the Russian case of monotowns
  5.3. worksites of the smart city
  5.3.1. power of data
  5.3.2. How much do smart cities cost?
  5.3.3. government of a smart city
  5.3.4. What are the tasks and what is the form of a smart government for a smart city?.