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Urban Digital Infrastructure, Smart Cityism, and Communication: Research Challenges for Urban E-Planning

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  • Scott McQuire

    (University of Melbourne, Australia)

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This article takes stock of the smart city concept by locating it in relation to both a longer history of urban computing, as well as more recent projects exploring the vexed issues of participatory urbanism, data ethics and urban surveillance. The author argues for the need to decouple thinking regarding the potential of urban digital infrastructure from the narrow and often technocentric discourse of ‘smart cityism'. Such a decoupling will require continued experimentation with both practical models and conceptual frameworks, but will offer the best opportunity for the ongoing digitization of cities to deliver on claims of ‘empowering' urban inhabitants.

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  • Scott McQuire, 2021. "Urban Digital Infrastructure, Smart Cityism, and Communication: Research Challenges for Urban E-Planning," International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR), IGI Global, vol. 10(3), pages 1-18, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jepr00:v:10:y:2021:i:3:p:1-18
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    1. Andrew Mondschein & Zihao Zhang & Mona El Khafif, 2019. "Community-Centered Urban Sensing: Smart Engaged Planning and Design in a Dysfunctional Urban Context," International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR), IGI Global, vol. 8(4), pages 1-16, October.
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    1. Melinda Benkő & Bence Bene & Ádám Pirity & Árpád Szabó & Tamás Egedy, 2021. "Real vs. Virtual City: Planning Issues in a Discontinuous Urban Area in Budapest’s Inner City," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 6(4), pages 150-163.
    2. Bosch, Stephan & Kienmoser, Dominik, 2024. "Land use scenarios for the development of a carbon-neutral energy supply – A case study from Southern Germany," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 142(C).

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