This commentary characterises and critiques research on smart cities. I argue that much of the writing and rhetoric about smart cities seeks to appear non-ideological, commonsensical and pragmatic. More critically orientated scholarship, while making vital conceptual and political interventions, presently has four shortcomings that inhibit making sense of and refashioning the smart city agenda…

The smartphone exemplifies the rhetorical smart city movement. This paper examines one potential use of smartphone technology�mapping public transportation services in a megacity of the Global South. We examine the potential user impacts of introducing a smartphone- generated and analogue-delivered schematic bus map in Dhaka, Bangladesh. After distributing the map, we used a web-based sur…

During the past decade, most large US cities have implemented non-emergency incidentreporting systems via telephone helplines, websites and more recently, mobile applications. Using data from systems operating in the larger Boston area, and spatial and grounded theory analysis of submitted reports, this article investigates the role of design in shaping the interaction between the citizens and…

This article makes three related arguments. First, that although many definitions of the smart city have been proposed, corporate promoters say a smart city uses information technology to pursue efficient systems through real-time monitoring and control. Second, this definition is not new and equivalent to the idea of urban cybernetics debated in the 1970s. Third, drawing on a discussion of Rio…

Driven by the profit motive of global high-technology companies, in collusion with the trend towards city governance being wedded to a competitive form of �urban entrepreneurialism�, has left little room for ordinary people to participate in the smart city. The article seeks to make a two-fold critical intervention into the dominance of this corporate smart city model. It does this b…

This paper argues that contemporary smart city visions based on ITs (information and telecommunication technologies) configure complex socio-technical challenges that can benefit from strategic niche management to foster two key processes: technological learning and societal embedding. Moreover, it studies the extent to which those processes started to unfold in two paradigmatic cases of smart …

A digital skin of the city is coming into being. This skin consists of a sensored and metered urban environment. The urban world is becoming a platform for generating data on the workings of human society, human interactions with the physical environment and manifold economic, political and social processes. The advent of the digital skin opens up many questions for urban theory and research, …

This issue brings together a set of articles that examine current debates around the goals, ethics, potential and limitations of a concept that has become a metaphor for urban modernity. We also include an unusual addition, a short intervention that surfaces some of the controversial issues related to smart cities, as a conception and as a practical undertaking.

Tahun Terbit

2010

ISBN/ISSN

978-979-709-497-3

Deskripsi Fisik

xx, 308 p.; 21 cm

No. Panggil

B Abd k

Tahun Terbit

2011

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-87206-338-9

Deskripsi Fisik

370 hlm.; 28 cm

No. Panggil

R 378.34 INT