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On alternative smart cities

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  • Colin McFarlane
  • Ola Söderström

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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.

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  • Colin McFarlane & Ola Söderström, 2017. "On alternative smart cities," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(3-4), pages 312-328, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:3-4:p:312-328
    DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1327166
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    1. Richard Hu, 2019. "The State of Smart Cities in China: The Case of Shenzhen," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(22), pages 1-18, November.
    2. Kummitha, Rama Krishna Reddy, 2020. "Why distance matters: The relatedness between technology development and its appropriation in smart cities," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 157(C).
    3. Trencher, Gregory, 2019. "Towards the smart city 2.0: Empirical evidence of using smartness as a tool for tackling social challenges," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 142(C), pages 117-128.
    4. Heaphy, Liam James, 2018. "Interfaces and divisions in the Dublin Docklands 'Smart District'," SocArXiv z2afc, Center for Open Science.
    5. Sepasgozar, Samad M.E. & Hawken, Scott & Sargolzaei, Sharifeh & Foroozanfa, Mona, 2019. "Implementing citizen centric technology in developing smart cities: A model for predicting the acceptance of urban technologies," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 142(C), pages 105-116.
    6. Heaphy, Liam James, 2018. "Interfaces and divisions in the Dublin Docklands 'Smart District'," OSF Preprints xbrgt, Center for Open Science.

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