{"613237":{"#nid":"613237","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Center for Urban Innovation Director Clark Gives Invited Talk at Seoul National University ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECenter for Urban Innovation Director Jennifer Clark, Ph.D., an associate professor\u0026nbsp;in the Georgia Institute of Technology School\u0026nbsp;of Public Policy, gave speeches about her smart cities research\u0026nbsp;at Seoul National University on October\u0026nbsp;16 and Sangsan High School on October\u0026nbsp;19. She was invited by Sam Ock Park, professor at Seoul National University.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EClark\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;remarks were entitled \u0026ldquo;Uneven Innovation: The Economic Geography of Smart Cities.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I was honored to talk about the development of smart cities projects with the faculty and students at Seoul National University\u0026#39;s Department of Geography and with the students at the Sangsan High School in Jeonju,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;Clark said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;In a country with the fastest average internet connection speeds in the world, young people have a particularly keen understanding of the potential of smart cities technologies to promote more equitable, sustainable, and efficient cities.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWithin the past academic year, Clark gave the first plenary talk at Regional Studies Association\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.regionalstudies.org\/conferences\/conference\/rsa-cee-cluj2017\u0022\u003E2017 Central \u0026amp; Eastern Europe Conference\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn \u0026ldquo;Smart Cities: Remaking Markets and Manufacturing Open Innovation Spaces,\u0026rdquo; Clark highlighted the myriad\u0026nbsp;products, actors, processes, and geographies of smart city implementation, emphasizing that being \u0026ldquo;smart\u0026rdquo; also necessitates being\u0026nbsp;complex. She also outlined some regional policy implications of the move towards \u0026lsquo;smartening\u0026#39; cities, including smart cities\u0026rsquo; potential to exacerbate existing intercity inequality, and finished by emphasizing\u0026nbsp;that the smart cities problem was one of policy, not merely technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo learn more about this plenary talk and its conference, follow the conference\u0026rsquo;s Twitter hashtag\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RSACluj?src=hash\u0022\u003E#RSACluj\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;or check out CUI\u0026#39;s own\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/gtcui\u0022\u003ETwitter account\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for highlights.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EClark\u0026#39;s influential research on smart cities was featured in Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s Research Horizons magazine in the story, \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/features\/smart-cities\u0022\u003ESmart Cities: Innovative Approaches Combining Engineering, Technology, and the Social Sciences Are Boosting the Urban IQ\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVisit \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/urbaninnovation.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/urbaninnovation.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E to read more about Dr. Clark\u0026rsquo;s current research projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECenter for Urban Innovation Director Jennifer Clark, Ph.D., an associate professor\u0026nbsp;in the Georgia Institute of Technology School\u0026nbsp;of Public Policy, gave speeches at Seoul National University about her smart cities research. She was invited by Sam Ock Park, professor at Seoul National University.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Clark discussed \u201cUneven Innovation: The Economic Geography of Smart Cities\u201d in invited talks in Seoul. 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