Smart Cities

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Foreword
3. Introduction
4. 1 What Do We Mean by “Smart City” and Where Does This Idea Come From?
   1. 1.1. Not-so-smart smart cities!
   2. 1.2. The smoke and mirrors of smart cities
   3. 1.3. Other mirrors for other smoke: cities of the creative classes
   4. 1.4. So what is a “smart city”?
5. 2 The Challenges of Urban Development in the Context of the Third Industrial Revolution
   1. 2.1. The demographic and economic challenges: toward a change in economic model
   2. 2.2. Geopolitical challenges: the polar shift in development in favor of the south-west and the different strategies among industrialized and emerging countries
   3. 2.3. Energy transfer: the fossil fuel curse is not about to disappear
   4. 2.4. The six breakthroughs in urban development based on smart cities
6. 3 What Makes a City Smart?
   1. 3.1. Lessons from medieval cities
   2. 3.2. A city is a system of life
   3. 3.3. Smart territory
   4. 3.4. Are metropolises smart territories?
   5. 3.5. A city is not a collection of smarties
   6. 3.6. The dangers of a technocentric approach
7. 4 New Sciences of Cities
   1. 4.1. The more or less sympathetic myths of the ideal city
   2. 4.2. A city is an imbalanced system
   3. 4.3. Smart city: an autopoietic system
   4. 4.4. A city must be designed as a “system of systems”
8. 5 Smart City in Action
   1. 5.1. Two cities that should not exist: Norilsk and Singapore
   2. 5.2. Pilot projects
   3. 5.3. The worksites of the smart city
9. Conclusion
10. References
11. Index
12. End User License Agreement