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Mostly, current works on smart cities focus on a vision that is based on technology, forgetting social aspects. Cities have reached their current form after centuries, and only with an analysis of why certain developments happened in the past (even in the very recent one) will help us in defining how future urban developments should look like, and how the technology should be used to overcome current spacial barriers among cities.
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Bassi, A. (2017). Looking at Smart Cities with an Historical Perspective. In: Angelakis, V., Tragos, E., Pöhls, H., Kapovits, A., Bassi, A. (eds) Designing, Developing, and Facilitating Smart Cities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44924-1_1
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