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Smart Cities as Democratic Ecologies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
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Smart Cities as Democratic Ecologies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
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The concept of the 'smart city' as the confluence of urban planning
and technological innovation has become a predominant feature of
public policy discourse. Despite its expanding influence, however,
there is little consensus on the precise meaning of a 'smart city'.
One reason for this ambiguity is that the term means different
things to different disciplines. For some, the concept of the
'smart city' refers to advances in sustainability and green
technologies. For others, it refers to the deployment of
information and communication technologies as next generation
infrastructure. This volume focuses on a third strand in this
discourse, specifically technology driven changes in democracy and
civic engagement. In conjunction with issues related to power
grids, transportation networks and urban sustainability, there is a
growing need to examine the potential of 'smart cities' as
'democratic ecologies' for citizen empowerment and user-driven
innovation. What is the potential of 'smart cities' to become
platforms for bottom-up civic engagement in the context of next
generation communication, data sharing, and application
development? What are the consequences of layering public spaces
with computationally mediated technologies? Foucault's notion of
the panopticon, a metaphor for a surveillance society, suggests
that smart technologies deployed in the design of 'smart cities'
should be evaluated in terms of the ways in which they enable, or
curtail, new urban literacies and emergent social practices.
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