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Research outputs: TOWNS
2021 Beyond smart metres: southern cities and area-based planning
For most urban residents in South Africa, the idea of the smart city finds it primary expression in the implementation of smart meters for e...
2021 The 15 minute city-campus: post-Covid African university precincts
In his 2016 article, Reimagining the city from the internet up, Dan Doctoroff argued that cities and towns that are based on the internet an...
2021 After mall economics: high-speed internet and under sea cables
The Nobel prize-winning economist Robert Shiller (2019) has argued that simple stories can have a powerful influence on how markets and econ...
2021 Placing the smart city: innovation and inclusive urban development
In this context, one of the central problems for the ruling party has been that so much of its transformative urban policy has been focused ...