This paper reviews Mitchell's thesis on the transition from the city of bits to e-topia. The review finds it wanting and suggests the problems encountered with the thesis rest with the lack of critical insight e-topia offers into the embedded intelligence of smart cities. It also suggests the...

This paper examines a recent attempt to reduce energy consumption and the associated levels of carbon emissions by way of and through what has been termed: “an active and integrated institutional arrangement”. That is, by the integration of a mass retrofit proposal into an urban regeneration...

The paper examines the development of the financial instruments (land audits, property reviews, information systems, registers and approaches to valuation) required to replace the expenditure‐driven logic of public sector finance with the system of capital accounting in local authorities...

Outlines the attempts made over the past few years to develop the financial services required by Kiev City council’s property management division to function as a privatization authority ‐ to develop, that is, what is referred to as the financial aspects of property management or, to be more...

The paper examines how a property management division has sought to adopt the recommendations of the Audit Commission and Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy reports on local authority property management, and measures the democratically‐elected body has taken via its central...