Denise Pumain's scientific contributions

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We argue that there is no one-fits-all “smart city” recipe to address the sustainability and socio-economic challenges of our ever-urbanizing world. If smartness is the ability to deliver useful information to citizens and urban actors in order to adapt their behaviors and policies dynamically and interactively in view of a particular social, econo...
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German physicist, Wolfgang Weidlich, has been called “one of the great intellects of the twentieth century” and was the founder of a new field that he termed “sociophysics.” His work harkened back to an earlier body of physics research applied to social systems that was among constituent streams of thought that Walter Isard merged into his early co...

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... It seems that the excessive mobility associated with the fragmentation of the value chains of globalized production has progressively decoupled urban expansion from the proper management of planetary resources (Rozenblat, 2018). It is unlikely that the technological solutions that are provided under the label of "smart cities" could easily solve these problems (Caragliu et al., 2011;Kourtit et al., 2020), especially because of the huge diversity of cities internal layouts and their already established networks operating internal and external interactions (Caruso et al., 2022). ...