Inside Smart Cities: Place, Politics and Urban Innovation
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The era of the smart city has arrived. Only a decade ago, the promise of optimising urban services through the widespread application of information and communication technologies was largely a tec ...
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There is neither an ideal AI system nor an ideal smart and sustainable city that can serve as a universal model of development, and the idea of a global paradigm is questionable given geographical differences.
“For sure, at the moment there is neither an ideal AI system, nor an ideal smart and sustainable city that can serve as a universal model of development and, given the many geographical differences that exist in the world, the very idea of having a global paradigm is questionable in the first place [68,174,175].”
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