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How does a city get to be ‘smart’? A smart city knows what its people want and need. Tel Aviv has a local government that’s using smart technology to inform, listen to and respond to the city’s residents.
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Tel Aviv has a reputation as a “non-stop city” but is also known for its local government’s use of smart technology to listen to and respond to residents’ needs and concerns.
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Christine Steinmetz, UNSW
To be a smart city is to know what your people want and need. And smart city leaders make sure residents can tell them by using technology to maintain a constant two-way flow of information.
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Arts + Culture
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Erwan Dianteill, Université Paris Descartes – USPC; Delphine Manetta, Université Paris Descartes – USPC
As early as 1953, Balandier demonstrated how the struggle against colonialism was associated with an inverted vision of the world.
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Health + Medicine
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Olivier Telle, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
The spread of infectious diseases such as chikungunya is closely linked to urban mobility, yet small Indian cities could play a crucial role in the resilience process.
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Politics + Society
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Amy Maguire, University of Newcastle; Jason von Meding, University of Newcastle
If states are permitted to determine when force is warranted, outside the existing legal framework, the legitimacy of that framework may be fatally undermined.
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John Bowen, Washington University in St Louis; Will Kymlicka, Queen's University, Ontario
Identity politics can take an exclusionary or even predatory form, but can they also be more progressive and emancipatory?
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