| Title |
Beyond The Control Room: The Smart (Sustainable?) Pathway Of Rio De Janeiro In Times Of Crisis |
| ID_Doc |
39882 |
| Authors |
Cabral, LJ; Ramos, MC; Carvalho, L |
| Title |
Beyond The Control Room: The Smart (Sustainable?) Pathway Of Rio De Janeiro In Times Of Crisis |
| Year |
2021 |
| Published |
Finisterra-Revista Portuguesa De Geografia, 56, 117 |
| DOI |
10.18055/Finis23269 |
| Abstract |
Rio de Janeiro has been a textbook example of the limitations of smart city development, epitomized by IBM ' s control room developed in the heyday of the city's Olympic agenda. Over the last years, the smart city discussion has expanded to include notions of sustainable development in the form of a "smart-sustainable" perspective to urban planning, observed by the increasing concern with socio-environmental aspects, beyond those of strictly economic and technological nature. This paper draws on 61 initiatives to analyse how the city's smart ambitions have evolved in this respect, scrutinizing domains, stakeholders, and focus, namely under a new context of political turmoil and budget restrictions. While most initiatives suggest weak collaborative environments and tensions between smart and sustainability ambitions, there is evidence that stagnation co-exists with the blurring between top-down and bottom-up initiatives, opening new challenges to understand smart-sustainable city development in crisis-ridden and budget-scarce cities. |
| Author Keywords |
Rio de Janeiro; smart city; Olympic Games; crisis; sustainability |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) |
| EID |
WOS:000692236600001 |
| WoS Category |
Geography |
| Research Area |
Geography |
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