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Smart Urbanism - Utopian vision or false dawn? (Hardcover)
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Smart Urbanism - Utopian vision or false dawn? (Hardcover)
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Smart Urbanism (SU) - the rebuilding of cities through the
integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods,
networked infrastructures and people - is being represented as a
unique emerging 'solution' to the majority of problems faced by
cities today. SU discourses, enacted by technology companies,
national governments and supranational agencies alike, claim a
supremacy of urban digital technologies for managing and
controlling infrastructures, achieving greater effectiveness in
managing service demand and reducing carbon emissions, developing
greater social interaction and community networks, providing new
services around health and social care etc. Smart urbanism is being
represented as the response to almost every facet of the
contemporary urban question. This book explores this common
conception of the problematic of smart urbanism and critically
address what new capabilities are being created by whom and with
what exclusions; how these are being developed - and contested;
where is this happening both within and between cities; and, with
what sorts of social and material consequences. The aim of the book
is to identify and convene a currently fragmented and disconnected
group of researchers, commentators, developers and users from both
within and outside the mainstream SU discourse, including several
of those that adopt a more critical perspective, to assess 'what'
problems of the city smartness can address The volume provides the
first internationally comparative assessment of SU in cities of the
global north and south, critically evaluates whether current
visions of SU are able to achieve their potential; and then
identifies alternative trajectories for SU that hold radical
promise for reshaping cities.
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