Description
The era of the smart city has arrived. Only a decade ago, the promise of optimising urban services through the widespread application of information and communication technologies was largely a techno-utopian fantasy. Today, smart urbanisation is occurring via urban projects, policies and visions in hundreds of cities around the globe.
Inside Smart Cities provides real-world evidence on how local authorities, small and medium enterprises, corporations, utility providers and civil society groups are creating smart cities at the neighbourhood, city and regional scales. Twenty three empirically detailed case studies from the Global North and South – ranging from Cape Town, Stockholm and Abu Dhabi to Philadelphia, Hong Kong and Santiago – illustrate the multiple and diverse incarnations of smart urbanism. The contributors draw on ideas from urban studies, geography, urban planning, science and technology studies and innovation studies to go beyond the rhetoric of technological innovation and reveal the political, social and physical implications of digitalising the built environment.
Collectively, the practices of smart urbanism raise fundamental questions about the sustainability, liveability and resilience of cities in the future. The findings are relevant to academics, students, practitioners and urban stakeholders who are questioning how urban innovation relates to politics and place.
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Notes on contributors
Foreword Simon Joss
1 Introduction: situating smart cities
Andrew Karvonen, Federico Cugurullo and Federico Caprotti
PART 1 – GROUNDING AND CONTEXTUALISING
2 Realising smart cities: partnerships and economic development in the emergence and practices of smart in Newcastle, Australia
Robyn Dowling, Pauline McGuirk and Sophia Maalsen
3 Dissecting the Frankenstein city: an examination of smart urbanism in Hong Kong
Federico Cugurullo
4 Ordinary Chinese smart cities: the case of Wuhan
Robert Cowley, Federico Caprotti, Michele Ferretti and Chen Zhong
5 The free zone and smart-global urbanization in Philadelphia
Alan Wiig
PART 2 – INTEGRATING AND ALIGNING
6 Actually-existing Smart Dublin: exploring smart city development in history and context
Rob Kitchin, Claudio Coletta and Liam Heaphy
7 Smart cities as strategic actors: insights from EU Lighthouse projects in Stavanger, Stockholm, and Nottingham
Håvard Haarstad and Marikken W. Wathne
8 Smart goes green: digitalising environmental agendas in Bristol and Manchester
Kerry Burton, Andrew Karvonen and Federico Caprotti
9 Smart urbanism and the visibility and reconfiguration of infrastructure and public action in the French cities of Issy-les-Moulineaux and Nice
Marie Veltz, Jonathan Rutherford and Antoine Picon
10 The transnational smart city as urban eco-modernisation: the case of Masdar City in Abu Dhabi
Federico Cugurullo and Davide Ponzini
PART 3 – CONTRADICTING AND CHALLENGING
11 Acknowledging the idiot in the smart city: experimentation and citizenship in the making of a low-carbon district in Santiago de Chile
Martín Tironi and Matías Valderrama
12 A smart equivocation: co-laboration and subsidiarity in Munich’s smart city consortium
Ignacio Farías and Claudia Mendes
13 Parramatta Smart City and the quest to build Australia’s next great city
Sarah Barns and Andrea Pollio
14 From participation to startup urbanisation?: re-situating open data in Lisbon
Luís Carvalho and Mário Vale
PART 4 – EXPERIENCING AND ENCOUNTERING
15 Barcelona: from corporate smart city to technological sovereignty
Hug March and Ramon Ribera-Fumaz
16 Smart innovation at the margins: learning from Cape Town and Kibera
Nancy Odendaal
17 Innovating for an aging society: insights from two Japanese smart cities
Gregory Trencher and Andrew Karvonen
18 Life in smart Seoul: the female factor
Sofia Shwayri
19 Conclusions: the long and unsettled future of smart cities
Andrew Karvonen, Federico Cugurullo and Federico Caprotti
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