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Title Crowdsourced Smart Cities versus Corporate Smart Cities
ID_Doc 42815
Authors Alizadeh, T
Title Crowdsourced Smart Cities versus Corporate Smart Cities
Year 2018
Published
DOI 10.1088/1755-1315/158/1/012046
Abstract Considering the speedy growth of smart-city promises and practices, there is an urgent need to take a critical approach and offer an integrated vision for an otherwise fragmented and sectoral concept. In particular, the literature warns about a critical deficit around the theorization of the smart city because discussions of relevant smart city theories or frameworks are few and fall short of offering alternative practical resolutions to the dominant discourse. In developing a response to such a deficit, this paper takes up the challenge to broaden theoretical insights into smart cities, by offering a bottom-up understanding of the 'smart city' concept with special attention to the potential of passive crowdsourcing based on the ocean of mostly untapped and unutilized available data in the public domain. Crowdsourced smart cities are proposed as an alternative to enable public engagement in smart city debates and decision-making - especially when dealing with global digital corporations.
Author Keywords
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S); Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH)
EID WOS:000446888700046
WoS Category Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies; Regional & Urban Planning
Research Area Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Public Administration
PDF https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/158/1/012046
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