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The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture

Manuel Castells
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The article was published on 1999-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 6134 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Information Age.

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Identity as an analytic lens for research in education

James Paul Gee
- 01 Jan 2000 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a focus on the contextually specific ways in which people act out and recognize identities allows a more dynamic approach than the sometimes overly general and static trio of "race, class, and gender".
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Will the Real Smart City Please Stand Up?: Intelligent, progressive or entrepreneurial?

Robert Hollands
- 26 Nov 2008 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a preliminary critical polemic against some of the more rhetorical aspects of smart cities, with a view to problematizing a range of elements that supposedly characterize this new urban form, as well as question some underlying assumptions/contradictions hidden within the concept.
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Understanding Smart Cities: An Integrative Framework

Hafedh Chourabi, +7 more
TL;DR: Eight critical factors are identified that form the basis of an integrative framework that can be used to examine how local governments are envisioning smart city initiatives and suggest directions and agendas for smart city research and outlines practical implications for government professionals.
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Conceptualizing smart city with dimensions of technology, people, and institutions

Taewoo Nam, +1 more
TL;DR: A set of the common multidimensional components underlying the smart city concept and the core factors for a successful smart city initiative is identified by exploring current working definitions of smart city and a diversity of various conceptual relatives similar to smart city.

A handbook for value chain research

Raphael Kaplinsky, +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a hand-written handbook on value chain analysis, which covers the broad terrain of value chain research, including the contextually relevant, conceptually abstract, the methodologically particular, and the policy relevant.