Professor Colin Mcfarlane colin.mcfarlane@durham.ac.uk
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On alternative smart cities: from a technology-intensive to a knowledge-intensive smart urbanism
McFarlane, C.; Söderström, O.
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O. Söderström
Abstract
Smart urbanism seems to be everywhere you turn. But in practice the agenda is an uncertain one, usually only partially developed, and often more about corporate-led urban development than about urban social justice. Rather than leave smart urbanism to the corporate and political elites, there are opportunities now for critical urban scholarship to not only critique how it is currently constituted, but to give shape to a globally oriented alternative smart urban agenda. An ambition like this means taking the ‘urban’ in ‘smart urban’ much more seriously. It means foregrounding the knowledges, political priorities and needs of those either actively excluded or included in damaging ways in mainstream smart urban discourses. We outline steps towards an alternative smart urbanism. We seek to move beyond the specific to the general and do so by drawing on radically different initiatives across the Global North and South. These initiatives provide tantalizing openings to a more socially just use of digital technology, where urban priorities and justice drive the use—or lack of use—of technology.
Citation
McFarlane, C., & Söderström, O. (2017). On alternative smart cities: from a technology-intensive to a knowledge-intensive smart urbanism. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 21(3-4), 312-328. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2017.1327166
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jan 10, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | Jun 8, 2017 |
Publication Date | Jul 4, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Jan 11, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Dec 8, 2018 |
Journal | City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action |
Print ISSN | 1360-4813 |
Electronic ISSN | 1470-3629 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 21 |
Issue | 3-4 |
Pages | 312-328 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2017.1327166 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1366582 |
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in City on 08/06/2017 available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13604813.2017.1327166
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