| Title | Smart city planning and the challenges of informality in India |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 45222 |
| Authors | Prasad, D; Alizadeh, T; Dowling, R |
| Title | Smart city planning and the challenges of informality in India |
| Year | 2023 |
| Published | |
| Abstract | Smart city initiatives are mushrooming across the Global South, yet their implications for urban informality - a distinct challenge of planning in the cities of the Global South - remain overlooked. Using the Indian case as a focus and drawing upon empirical studies in three cities of Bhubaneswar, Pune, and Chennai, which are among the first 20 smart cities prioritised for implementation in the Smart Cities Mission, we show how informality challenges the understanding of the smart city. We analyse how this phenomenon is framed in smart city planning, focusing on the three domains of affordable housing, infrastructure services, and citizen engagement. We argue that using informality as a lens of critical analysis offers a new perspective on the 'Southern theory' of smart cities. In doing so, we highlight the disregard of informality at the cost of socio-spatial division - as a significant challenge for smart city development in India. |
| https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231156655 |
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