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The Real-Time City? Big Data and Smart Urbanism

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Kitchin, Rob·2013·SSRN Electronic Journal
DOI 10.2139/ssrn.2289141
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  • Big Data stored in the Cloud provide novel and powerful insights regarding behaviour, business transactions and human impacts, enabling real-time decision-making.

    “Often referred to as Big Data and stored in data warehouses called the Cloud, these data streams provide novel and powerful insights regarding behaviour, business transactions and human impacts, enabling real-time decision-making (Kitchin, 2013).”

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    The Conclusion and “The real-time city” section say that big-data analytics provide insights into city life and support real-time analysis and decision-making. “Big data and cities” also describes data on people’s behaviour and transactions. The paper discusses distributed storage, but does not identify the Cloud as a data warehouse or say these streams are stored there; that part of the claim is unsupported. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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Authors
Kitchin, R.
Affiliations
National University of Ireland, Maynooth (IE)
Corresponding author
Kitchin, Rob
ORCID
Kitchin, Rob
Venue
SSRN Electronic Journal
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2013
Volume
79
Issue
1
Pages
1-14
ISSN
  • 0343-2521 (ISSN-L)
  • 1556-5068
DOI
10.2139/ssrn.2289141
OpenAlex
W3125866593
Cited by
2,794
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FWCI
288.78
Type
book chapter
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • GeoJournal (publishedVersion)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (publishedVersion)
  • Maynooth University ePrints and eTheses Archive (Maynooth University) (acceptedVersion)
Funders
Durham University
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Media Technology › Smart Cities and Technologies
  • Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban Planning and Governance
  • Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Geographic Information Systems Studies
Keywords
smart cities, big data, smart urbanism, urban governance, ubiquitous computing, technocratic governance, technological lock-in, urban development

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