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Smart City as a Mobile Technology: Critical Perspectives on Urban Development Policies

In: Transforming City Governments for Successful Smart Cities

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  • Patrizia Lombardi

    (Politecnico di Torino and Università di Torino)

  • Alberto Vanolo

    (Politica e Società, Università di Torino, Eu-Polis, Politecnico di Torino)

Abstract

This chapter aims at providing a critical reflection about the relation between smart city and neoliberal urban governance. In the current economic scenario of crisis and austerity, smart city policy is representing an attempt to attract and coopt private actors in the provision of urban services, opening new critical issues on urban neoliberalism and welfare. The hypothesis is that the smart city policy may be interpreted as a mobile technology (recalling Aihwa Ong’s definition) of governance circulating in cities across Europe. As a consequence of neoliberalism and economic crisis, local governments are more and more in charge of providing urban services, whereas the smart city paradigm is offering new areas of economic profitability for private companies promoting technological solutions. This process implies the development of new urban governance, where the smart city policy offers technological solutions, political responses and moral justifications that are socially and politically quite pervasive. According to this perspective, there is a great need for critical and global analysis, questioning the appropriateness of any smart city project in the context of its application.

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  • Patrizia Lombardi & Alberto Vanolo, 2015. "Smart City as a Mobile Technology: Critical Perspectives on Urban Development Policies," Public Administration and Information Technology, in: Manuel Pedro Rodríguez-Bolívar (ed.), Transforming City Governments for Successful Smart Cities, edition 127, pages 147-161, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:paitcp:978-3-319-03167-5_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03167-5_8
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    Cited by:

    1. Ezra Ho, 2017. "Smart subjects for a Smart Nation? Governing (smart)mentalities in Singapore," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 54(13), pages 3101-3118, October.
    2. Paolo Cardullo & Rob Kitchin, 2019. "Smart urbanism and smart citizenship: The neoliberal logic of ‘citizen-focused’ smart cities in Europe," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 37(5), pages 813-830, August.
    3. Barbara Caselli & Gloria Pellicelli & Silvia Rossetti & Michele Zazzi, 2022. "How Are Medium-Sized Cities Implementing Their Smart City Governance? Experiences from the Emilia-Romagna Region," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(22), pages 1-21, November.

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