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Title Unpacking the Smart City Through the Lens of the Right to the City: A Taxonomy as a Way Forward in Participatory City-Making
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Authors Anastasiu, I
Title Unpacking the Smart City Through the Lens of the Right to the City: A Taxonomy as a Way Forward in Participatory City-Making
Year 2019
Published
DOI 10.1007/978-981-13-2694-3_13
Abstract Henri Lefebvre's urgent utopia of right to the city to achieve a new form of urban governance that moves beyond both capitalism and state bureaucracy seems timely with the increasing critiques of how techno-centric, top-down and corporate-driven smart cities are ill-equipped to deliver their promised civic, economic and political benefits. The exploration of the smart city through Lefebvre's lens enables the reconceptualisation of the emerging notion of participatory city-making as a translation of the right to the city into practice. This chapter seeks, thus, to further unpack the concept of participatory city-making and, by linking it to operational concepts and proposing a taxonomy for the classification of initiatives that shape the city, clear a path forward towards systemic change.
Author Keywords Participatory city-making; Right to the city; Participatory action research; Hacker ethic; Civic engagement; Smart city; Human smart city; Urban informatics
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH)
EID WOS:000494829500013
WoS Category Communication; Urban Studies
Research Area Communication; Urban Studies
PDF https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-981-13-2694-3_13.pdf
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