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Title	The Smart Narrative of a Smart City
ID_Doc	45708
Authors	Gonella, F
Title	The Smart Narrative of a Smart City
Year	2019
Published
Abstract	The current narrative about Smart Cities is flawed on two levels. First, it describes cities whose promise of smartness is highly biased. Second, it neglects to account for the systemic nature of the urban metabolism, as well as the role of the support region of the city (in terms of its resource provision). In this contribution, I propose a short review of the mainstream Smart City narrative elements as presented by influential and authoritative sources, pointing out their detachment from the reality and from the sustainability of cities described by systemic thinking.
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