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Title Urban Digital Infrastructure, Smart Cityism, and Communication: Research Challenges for Urban E-Planning
ID_Doc 40649
Authors McQuire, S
Title Urban Digital Infrastructure, Smart Cityism, and Communication: Research Challenges for Urban E-Planning
Year 2021
Published International Journal Of E-Planning Research, 10, 3
DOI 10.4018/IJEPR.20210701.oa1
Abstract This article takes stock of the smart city concept by locating it in relation to both a longer history of urban computing, as well as more recent projects exploring the vexed issues of participatory urbanism, data ethics and urban surveillance. The author argues for the need to decouple thinking regarding the potential of urban digital infrastructure from the narrow and often technocentric discourse of `smart cityism'. Such a decoupling will require continued experimentation with both practical models and conceptual frameworks, but will offer the best opportunity for the ongoing digitization of cities to deliver on claims of `empowering' urban inhabitants.
Author Keywords Data Ethics; Participatory Urbanism; Smart City; Urban Communication; Urban Surveillance
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
EID WOS:000603367900002
WoS Category Regional & Urban Planning
Research Area Public Administration
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