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Title	Smart Cities In Subsaharan Africa: Opportunities And Challenges
ID_Doc	49623
Authors	Chirisa I.; Matamanda A.R.
Year	2019
Published	Industrial and Urban Growth Policies at the Sub-National, National, and Global Levels
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7625-9.ch005
Abstract	The aim of this chapter is to interrogate and diagnose the concept of smart cities as it has been applied to Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in a bid to decrypt the opportunities and challenges characterizing its manifestation in space and actuality. The chapter is a product of the critical engagement of scholarly work that compares the best practices in the development and promotion of the smart city concept against those practices that are antithetical and retrogressive in light of this good cause. To crystallize the realities, the chapter makes use of case studies that speak to these contrasting experiences. Case studies in SSA reveal differential practices with South Africa emerging as a country doing very well relative to others in the region. Some cities, especially the small and intermediate ones, fail to break even in terms of the revenue collections. This is partly because they have failed to attract investment in the form of industries or retain them because of politically induced instabilities. © 2019, IGI Global.
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