| Title | Who's Smart? Whose City? The Sociopolitics of Urban Intelligence |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 43284 |
| Authors | Goh, K |
| Title | Who's Smart? Whose City? The Sociopolitics of Urban Intelligence |
| Year | 2015 |
| Published | |
| Abstract | Visions of the "smart city" are becoming reality, translated from the realm of concepts into actual urban space. Proponents of smart city technologies invoke their potential to free us from the drudgery of urban life and solve our environmental problems. But can "smart cities" save us? There has been long-standing resistance to the scientific, positivist basis for planning. What happens when intelligent plans encounter messy politics, social systems, and divergent scales of urban governance? This paper explores the promises of "smart cities" and their stated rationale, and grounds a review of theoretical paradigms with new empirical research in Singapore and London. I present two key findings: First, there is no one "smart city," even within a city. Second, differences in scales and ideologies of urban governance across cities have significant impact on the way that actors frame their priorities and objectives around the role of urban technologies. Finally, I speculate on the ways that urban networked systems might enable and empower a transformative planning. |
Similar Articles
| ID | Score | Article |
|---|---|---|
36092
|
Leung, KYK; Lee, HY Implementing the smart city: who has a say? Some insights from Hong Kong(2023) | |
| 43209
|
Jiang, HX; Geertman, S; Witte, P Smart urban governance: an alternative to technocratic "smartness"(2022)Geojournal, 87, 3 | |
| 40512
|
Cook, M; Karvonen, A Urban planning and the knowledge politics of the smart city(2024)Urban Studies, 61, 2 | |
| 44642
|
Sadowski, J; Maalsen, S Modes of making smart cities: Or, practices of variegated smart urbanism(2020) | |
| 37626
|
Karvonen, A; Cook, M; Haarstad, H Urban Planning and the Smart City: Projects, Practices and Politics(2020)Urban Planning, 5.0, 1 | |
| 79104
|
Kong, L; Woods, O The ideological alignment of smart urbanism in Singapore: Critical reflections on a political paradox(2018)Urban Studies, 55, 4 | |
| 44032
|
Jiang, HX Smart urban governance in the 'smart' era: Why is it urgently needed?(2021) | |
| 36162
|
Verrest, H; Pfeffer, K Elaborating the urbanism in smart urbanism: distilling relevant dimensions for a comprehensive analysis of Smart City approaches(2019)Information Communication & Society, 22, 9 | |
| 37644
|
Thomas, V; Wang, D; Mullagh, L; Dunn, N Where's Wally? In Search of Citizen Perspectives on the Smart City(2016)Sustainability, 8.0, 3 | |
| 36217
|
Krivy, M Towards a critique of cybernetic urbanism: The smart city and the society of control(2018)Planning Theory, 17, 1 |