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Special Section: Mega Events and the Technology of Spectacle

Smarter than Smart: Rio de Janeiro's Flawed Emergence as a Smart City

Christopher GaffneySenior Research Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse, SwitzerlandCorrespondence[email protected]
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Cerianne RobertsonHead of Media Technologies for the NGO Catalytic Communities
Pages 47-64 | Published online: 29 Apr 2016

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