Cities around the world are pursuing a smart cities agenda. In
general, these initiatives are promoted and rolled-out by governments
and corporations which enact various forms of top-down, technocratic
governance and reproduce neoliberal governmentality. Despite calls for
the smart city agenda to be more citizen-centric and bottom-up in
nature, how this translates into policy and initiatives is still
weakly articulated and practiced. Indeed, there is little meaningful
engagement by key stakeholders with respect to rights, citizenship,
social justice, commoning, civic participation, co-creation, and how
the smart city might be productively reimagined and remade. This
book fills this lacuna by providing critical reflection on whether
another smart city is possible and what such a city might look like,
exploring themes such as how citizens are framed within it, the
ethical implications of smart city systems, and whether injustices are
embedded in city systems, infrastructures, services and their
calculative practices. Contributors question whether the need for
order, and the priorities of capital and property rights, trump
individual and collective liberty. Ultimately considering what kind of
smart city do individuals want to create, and how we create the most
sustainable smart urban landscape.
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ISBN
9781787691414
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Emerald Publishing Ltd.
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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