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3. The Critical Infrastructure and Software Needed to Build a Smart City

Authors : Joseph N. Pelton, Indu B. Singh

Published in: Smart Cities of Today and Tomorrow

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

There is no one template that one follows to create a smart city. It is just not that simple. Anyone who says that they have a straightforward and foolproof plan for you to follow to design, implement and operate a successful smart city—well that person is lying!

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Footnotes
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3
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Pedro Ortiz, “How to Respond to Uncontrolled Metropolitan International Growth,” Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), November 2011.
 
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Pedro Ortiz, The Art of Shaping the Metropolis, (2013) McGraw Hill, New York.
 
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Indu Singh and Joseph N. Pelton, Safe Cities: Living Free in a Dangerous World (2013) Emerald Planet, Washington, D. C., p. 4.
 
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Metadata
Title
The Critical Infrastructure and Software Needed to Build a Smart City
Authors
Joseph N. Pelton
Indu B. Singh
Copyright Year
2019
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95822-4_3

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