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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Lorraine Hudson and Gerd Kortuem. It was funded by MK:Smart which was a £16 milion collaborative smart city initiative partly funded by a grant from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and led by The Open University, that developed innovative solutions to support the economic growth of Milton Keynes.

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Figure 1 © Yu Yu Hoi/gettyimages.co.uk

Figure 4 © Hung_Chung_Chih/iStockphoto.com

Figure 5 © Drone MK (www.dronemk.co.uk)

Figure 11 © Westend61/Gettyimages.co.uk

Figure 12 © 2015 Transport Systems Catapult

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Introduction © The Open University (Assets: BBC/Wikimedia commons/European Green Capital/European Network of Living Labs, ENoLL/Future Cities Catapult /OpenLivingLab Days)

1.2 IES Cities © Credit Knowle West Media Centre, KWMI.

2.1 Cities Unlocked © Credit Future Cities Catapult.

2.3 ENoLL Summer School © European Network of Living Labs, ENoLL

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