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The Advancement of World Digital Cities

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Since the early 1990s, and particularly with the popularization of the Internet and the World Wide Web, a wave of experiments and initiatives has emerged, aiming at acilitating city functions such as community activities, local economies and municipal ervices. This chapter reviews advancements of worldwide activities focused on the creation of regional information spaces. In the US and Canada, a large number f community networks using the city metaphor appeared in the early 1990s. In Europe, more than one hundred similar initiatives have been tried out, often supported by large governmental project funds. Asian countries are rapidly adopting the latest information and communication technologies for actively interacting real-time city information and creating civic communication channels.

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  1. IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Mika Yasuoka

  2. Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University & Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan

    Toru Ishida

  3. School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, Newcastle, England

    Alessandro Aurigi

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Yasuoka, M., Ishida, T., Aurigi, A. (2010). The Advancement of World Digital Cities. In: Nakashima, H., Aghajan, H., Augusto, J.C. (eds) Handbook of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-93808-0_35

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