Special Issue on Smart Applications for Smart Cities - New Approaches to Innovation: Guest Editors' Introduction
Special Issue on Smart Applications for Smart Cities - New Approaches to Innovation: Guest Editors' Introduction
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智慧城市智慧应用特刊 - 创新新方法:客座编辑介绍
DOI:
10.4067/s0718-18762012000300005
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发表时间:
2012
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通讯作者:
N. Komninos
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作者:
H. Schaffers;C. Ratti;N. Komninos
Cities are complex, networked and continuously changing social ecosystems, shaped and transformed through the interaction of different interests and ambitions. Employment, sustainable development, inclusion, security and quality of life are important concerns and in this respect many cities are confronted with a wide range of challenges. Cities, particularly in rural areas, are also facing the implications of ageing population in combination with economic decline [9]. However cities also represent a promise for the future: a vision of freedom, creativity, opportunity and prosperity [4]. More than half of the global population is now urban and projections estimate that this percentage will even grow towards 70 % in 2050 [13]. At the same time, technology is currently promoting unprecedented changes in urban areas, which are often labelled as