TY - BOOK AU - Anthopoulos,Leonidas G. ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Understanding Smart Cities: A Tool for Smart Government or an Industrial Trick? T2 - Public Administration and Information Technology, SN - 9783319570150 AV - JF20-2112 U1 - 351 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer KW - Public administration KW - Economic policy KW - Public policy KW - Public Administration KW - R & D/Technology Policy KW - Public Policy N1 - Prologue -- The rise of the Smart City -- Smart City in Practice -- The smart city market -- Governing a smart city -- Smart Government -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only. Доступно лише організаціям членам підписки N2 - This book investigates the role of smart cities in the broader context of urban innovation and e-government, identifies what a smart city is in practice and highlights their importance to the welfare of society. The book offers specific, measurable, and action-oriented public sector planning and management principles and ideas for smart governance in the era of global urbanization and innovation to help with the challenges in maintaining the democratic system of checks and balances as well as the division of powers in a highly interconnected world. The book will be of interest researchers, practitioners, students, and public sector IT professionals that work within innovation management, public administration, urban technologies and urban innovation, and public local administration studies UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57015-0 ER -