| Title | The smart city and the containment of informality: The case of Dubai |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 37811 |
| Authors | Breslow, H |
| Title | The smart city and the containment of informality: The case of Dubai |
| Year | 2021 |
| Published | Urban Studies, 58.0, 3 |
| Abstract | I argue that Dubai's smart city project, 'Smart Dubai', is a response to the following priorities: (i) the furtherance of the city's scale-making project and worlding strategies, through the propagation of the smart city imaginary and the buildout of a smart city infrastructure modelled after those in the global north and west and used to compete for members of the creative class and other high-value residents; (ii) a project to enlarge the scope of Dubai's economy of flow. Dubai in particular, and the UAE in general, have long articulated a political economic project based on the creation of a political economy that positions the country as a regional hub within the global political economy of flow; and (iii) the containment of urban informality, which in Dubai is understood as both a disciplinary problem and an existential challenge to what is still, at heart, a rentier economy. |
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