Izabela Jonek-Kowalska, Radoslaw Wolniak

Exclusion in Smart Cities (eBook, ePUB)

Assessment and Strategy for Strengthening Resilience

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Smart cities are fascinating, but they also have a dark side that little is said or written about. One issue is the possibility of generating various types of exclusion. For this reason, this book will develop principles for assessing the inclusiveness of smart cities and outlines strategies for strengthening urban resistance to exclusion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040331910
• Artikelnr.: 73154068

Autorenporträt

Izabela Jonek-Kowalska is Full Professor in the Department of Economics and Computer Sciences at Silesian University of Technology, Poland. For over 23 years she has been dealing with the economics of business entities, including finance and management of Smart Cities. Her research output includes over 400 publications with national and international publishers, as well as many undertakings and projects implemented in cooperation with the business environment. Izabela's research interests include finance of business entities, Smart City risk management, and municipal and industrial economics.

Radoslaw Wolniak is Full Professor in the Department of Economics and Informatics at Silesian University of Technology, Poland. For over 24 years he has been dealing with the issues of management, including Industry 4.0, Smart City, digitalization, and artificial intelligence. His scientific achievements include over 600 publications with national and international publishers, as well as many undertakings and projects implemented in cooperation with the business environment. Radoslaw's research interests include management, Smart Cities, Industry 4.0, digitalization, innovativeness, and artificial intelligence.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
Introduction
1. The concept of a Smart City (SC) in modern economies
1.1. Creation and assumptions of the Smart City concept
1.2. Areas of Smart City development and evaluation
2. Bright and dark sides of Smart City
2.1. The role of Smart City in improving the quality of urban life
2.2. Criticism of the Smart City concept on the literature on the subject
3. Smart City governance
3.1. The role of city authorities in creating smart cities
3.2. The Smart City concept in the strategies of the cities of Central and
Eastern Europe
4. The issue of exclusion in Smart City rankings
4.1. Characteristics of Smart City rankings
4.2. Assessment of areas and indicators of exclusion in selected Smart City
rankings
5. Exclusivity and inclusiveness of Smart City in practice
5.1. Leaders and losers of inclusiveness in Smart City
5.2. Smart City inclusiveness best practices: case studies
6. Proposal for assessing the inclusiveness of Smart City
6.1. Areas and principles of measuring inclusiveness
6.2. Concept of the Smart City inclusiveness assessment
7. Long-term strategy for strengthening inclusiveness in the Smart City
7.1. Identification of future trends in exclusion in the Smart City
7.2. Strategy to strengthen resistance to exclusions in the Smart City
8. Inclusiveness versus exclusivity: discussion and conclusions
8.1. Discussion in the light of current research and practices
8.2. Summary, research limitations, and directions for further research
Conclusion
Index