Island Smart Eco-Cities: Innovation, Secessionary Enclaves, and the Selling of Sustainability

Governments and developers around the globe are exploiting the benefits of island spatiality to sell urban sustainability. Many new-build smart cities, eco-cities, and sustainable cities (‘smart eco-cities’) are constructed on small islands or otherwise bounded from surrounding urban space. Island s...

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Main Authors: Adam, Ilan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Island Dynamics 2016-12-01
Series:Urban Island Studies
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Online Access:http://urbanislandstudies.org/UIS-2-Grydehoj-Kelman-Island-Smart-Eco-Cities.pdf