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The 'smart city' is often promoted as a technology-driven solution
to complex urban issues. While commentators are increasingly
critical of techno-optimistic narratives, the political imagination
is dominated by claims that technical solutions can be uniformly
applied to intractable problems. This book provides a much-needed
alternative view, exploring how 'home-grown' digital disruption,
driven and initiated by local actors, upends the mainstream
corporate narrative. Drawing on original research conducted in a
range of urban African settings, Odendaal shows how these
initiatives can lead to meaningful change. This is a valuable
resource for scholars working in the intersection of science and
technology studies, urban and economic geography and sociology.
The 'smart city' is often promoted as a technology-driven solution
to complex urban issues. While commentators are increasingly
critical of techno-optimistic narratives, the political imagination
is dominated by claims that technical solutions can be uniformly
applied to intractable problems. This book provides a much-needed
alternative view, exploring how 'home-grown' digital disruption,
driven and initiated by local actors, upends the mainstream
corporate narrative. Drawing on original research conducted in a
range of urban African settings, Odendaal shows how these
initiatives can lead to meaningful change. This is a valuable
resource for scholars working in the intersection of science and
technology studies, urban and economic geography and sociology.
Shaping Smart for Better Cities powerfully demonstrates the range
of theoretical and practical challenges, opportunities and success
factors involved in successfully deploying digital technologies in
cities, focusing on the importance of recognizing local context and
multi-layered urban relationships in designing successful urban
interventions. The first section, 'Rethinking Smart (in) Places'
interrogates the smart city from a theoretical vantage point. The
second part, 'Shaping Smart Places' examines various case studies
critically. Hence the volume offers an intellectual resource that
expands on the current literature, but also provides a pedagogical
resource to universities as well as a reflective opportunity for
practitioners. The cases allow for an examination of the practical
implications of smart interventions in space, whilst the
theoretical reflections enable expansion of the literature.
Students are encouraged to learn from case studies and apply that
learning in design. Academics will gain from the learning embedded
in the documentation of the case studies in different geographic
contexts, while practitioners can apply their learning to the
conceptualisation of new forms of technology use.
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