| Title | More-than-local, more-than-mobile: The smart city effect in South Africa |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 37733 |
| Authors | Söderström, O; Blake, E; Odendaal, N |
| Title | More-than-local, more-than-mobile: The smart city effect in South Africa |
| Year | 2021 |
| Published | |
| Abstract | This paper explores how the smart city phenomenon becomes nearly ubiquitous in countries and cities around the world. Drawing on policy mobility studies and cosmopolitisation - defined as globalization from within - it focuses on the roll-out and take-up of smart city narratives and interventions in South Africa since 2005. Based on a media analysis on national and local scales, the paper shows that the smart city effect is an entangled phenomenon. Generally speaking, it consists of a lexical glue that holds together processes of data-driven neoliberalisation of urban governance. However, at municipal level we observe more variegated effects of reverse-scale policymaking, labelling and territorialisation where the smart city appears as a more-than-mobile but also as a more-than-local urban policy. |
Similar Articles
| ID | Score | Article |
|---|---|---|
36014
|
Boyle, L; Harlow, J; Keeler, LW (D)evolving smartness: exploring the changing modalities of smart city making in Africa(2024)Urban Geography, 45, 4 | |
| 78824
|
Ranchod, R The data-technology nexus in South African secondary cities: The challenges to smart governance(2020)Urban Studies, 57, 16 | |
| 39661
|
Varró, K; Bunders, DJ Bringing back the national to the study of globally circulating policy ideas: 'Actually existing smart urbanism' in Hungary and the Netherlands(2020)European Urban And Regional Studies, 27, 3 | |
| 37381
|
Wathne, MW; Haarstad, H The smart city as mobile policy: Insights on contemporary urbanism(2020) | |
| 43339
|
Bandauko, E; Arku, RN A critical analysis of 'smart cities' as an urban development strategy in Africa(2023)International Planning Studies, 28, 1 | |
| 44642
|
Sadowski, J; Maalsen, S Modes of making smart cities: Or, practices of variegated smart urbanism(2020) | |
| 44297
|
Butcher, M; Sircar, S Localizing India's global smart cities: a multi-scalar analysis of cities yet-to-come(2024)Urban Geography, 45, 6 | |
| 43077
|
Miller, B; Ward, K; Burns, R; Fast, V; Levenda, A Worlding and provincialising smart cities: From individual case studies to a global comparative research agenda(2021)Urban Studies, 58, 3 | |
| 36421
|
Esposito, G; Clement, J; Mora, L; Crutzen, N One size does not fit all: Framing smart city policy narratives within regional socio-economic contexts in Brussels and Wallonia(2021) | |
| 36925
|
Shelton, T; Zook, M; Wiig, A The 'actually existing smart city'(2015)Cambridge Journal Of Regions Economy And Society, 8.0, 1 |