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Building a smart city: lessons from Barcelona

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Smart Internet-based infrastructure is one thing but will be ignored without the public's continuing engagement.

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              Communications of the ACM  Volume 61, Issue 4
              April 2018
              88 pages
              ISSN:0001-0782
              EISSN:1557-7317
              DOI:10.1145/3200906
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