| Title |
Smart Cities Who is the Main Observer? |
| ID_Doc |
40653 |
| Authors |
Petroccia, S; Pitasi, A; Cossi, GM; Roblek, V |
| Title |
Smart Cities Who is the Main Observer? |
| Year |
2020 |
| Published |
Comparative Sociology, 19, 2 |
| DOI |
10.1163/15691330-BJA10012 |
| Abstract |
This paper is based on the paradigm that a smart city is a part of the intellectual framework of second-order cybernetics and considers social communication in terms of the management and use of different data channels. Planning as a political practice is replaced by environmentally-behavioral control, in which subjectivity is articulated above-individually (permeating the city with sensitive nodes) and infra-individually (transforming citizens into sensitive nodes). This leads us to the research question: how to focus on the social relations and processes of the smart urbanization which are based on the second order cybernetic approach? The smart city is understood as a complex mechanism, where one begins to realize the often-unintended human, environmental, social and economic consequences of a technological and engineering-led approach. The latest thinking and smart urban projects are aimed at comprehending smart and/or sustainable infrastructure as a network between places and people in order to create a more sustainable, healthy and resilient future for different groups of citizens (from young people to seniors). Municipality strategies need to address global socio-economic factors, processes of innovation with new technology, constant adaptation in public and private sector organisations and the diversity of qualified resources. |
| Author Keywords |
smart city; cybernetics; urbanisation; internet of things; internet of services; urban innovation |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) |
| EID |
WOS:000540713800004 |
| WoS Category |
Sociology |
| Research Area |
Sociology |
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