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What Is Smart About Smart Cities?

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  • Ayesha Atique

    (Alumna, GCUF)

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Smart cities are increasingly popular in the global south as 21st century solutions to the management of urban infrastructures systems, data and information about territories and populations. It has shaped entrepreneurial initiatives and increased competition across cities and nations in mediating urban interventions through technology, leading to top- down and universalized notions of seeing the city from above. This webinar will examine the social and cultural consequences of the smart city particular on gender, social class and spatial justice.

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  • Ayesha Atique, 2021. "What Is Smart About Smart Cities?," PIDE Webinar Brief 2021:05, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:pid:wbrief:2021:05
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    Smart; Cities;

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