A Tale of two "Smart Cities": Investigating the Echoes of New Public Management and Governance Discourses in Smart City Projects in Brazil

Przeybilovicz, Erico; Cunha, Maria Alexandra; Macaya, Javiera Fernanda Medina; Albuquerque, João Porto de

doi:10.24251/hicss.2018.314

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“…The burgeoning academic literature on smart cities has identified a number of emergent themes and critical perspectives which help inform the present analysis. One such theme, reflecting a critique of neoliberal urban policy, concerns the relationship between smart city initiatives and the corporatization of city management and, more broadly, new forms of technocratic governance (e.g., Allwinkle and Cruickshank 2011;Greenfield, 2013;Townsend, 2013;Söderström et al, 2014;Vanolo, 2014;Angelidou, 2015;Calzada and Cobo, 2015;Hollands, 2015;Kitchin, 2015;Przeybilovicz et al, 2018). Another theme relates to the smart city conceived of as experimental urbanism realized through new urban spaces and practices across multiple scales (e.g., Evans et al, 2016;Scholl and Kemp, 2016;Caprotti and Cowley, 2017;Raven et al, 2017).…”

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The Smart City as Global Discourse: Storylines and Critical Junctures across 27 Cities

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Sengers

Schraven³

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Journal of Urban Technology

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Despite its growing ubiquitous presence, the smart city continues to struggle for definitional clarity and practical import. In response, this study interrogates the smart city as global discourse network by examining a collection of key texts associated with cities worldwide. Using a list of 5,553 cities, a systematic webometric exercise was conducted to measure hit counts produced by searching for "smart city." Consequently, 27 cities with the highest validated hit counts were selected. Next, 346 online texts were collected from among the top 20 hits across each of the selected cities, and analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively using AntConc software. The findings confirm, first, the presence of a strong globalizing narrative which emphasizes world cities as "best practice" models. Second, they reveal the smart city's association-beyond the quest for incremental, technical improvements of current urban systems and processes-with a pronounced transformative governance agenda. The article identifies five critical junctures at the heart of the evolving smart city discourse regime; these shed light on the ongoing boundary work in which the smart city is engaged and which contain significant unresolved tensions. The paper concludes with a discussion of resulting implications for research, policy, and practice.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Smart City as Global Discourse: Storylines and Critical Junctures across 27 Cities

Joss¹,

Sengers

Schraven³

et al. 2019

Journal of Urban Technology

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158

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“…Under conditions of late capitalism, urban governments increasingly move toward PPP models that are based on managerial and business approaches in governance (Harvey, 1989). Przeybilovicz et al (2016) argue smart cities form natural habitats for the New Public Management model. This model began in the 1980s and 1990s in the United States, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, and applied private-sector management principles to reforming government.…”

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“…In neoliberal smart cities in the global South, this model of governance assumes popularity in the last two decades. The use of ICTs in e-governance programs are supposed to leverage new forms of networked and hybrid forms of governance, and efficiency in public administration based on private-sector models (Przeybilovicz et al, 2016). As the seemingly paternalistic state under the new public management model attempts to become efficient through business models, citizens become clients of the state and civil society organizations.…”

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A mission to converge for inclusion? The smart city and the women of Seelampur

Sarkar

2019

Media, Culture & Society

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Based on ethnographic research in New Delhi, this article critically examines the promise of inclusion of the smart city, new governance program Mission Convergence for marginalized residents, especially minority women in the urban periphery of Seelampur. Drawing from transdisciplinary debates, I argue that this smart city program must be globally located in institutional shifts in New Public Management approaches that advocate the hybrid and networked state, entrepreneurial citizens, and self-regulated workers in the global economy. Program practices of counting the poor revealed structural inequities that were concealed behind the smooth interface of Convergence. Furthermore, subaltern women formed the nurturing interface of the networked state which was a hollow position without power. Finally, Seelampur women were trained in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and other skills as precarious labor for the global economy. My research highlights contradictory experiences of marginalized women in the context of optimism about ICT-enabled inclusion.

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“…Different and often complementary points of view on a smart city include the efficient, green, technologically advanced, sustainable, and socially inclusive city [ 2 ]. However, smart cities can differ greatly from each other, due to variable characteristics, such as economic factors, infrastructure, or governance.…”

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The Need for Cybersecurity in Industrial Revolution and Smart Cities

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Toma

Zota

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Cities have grown in development and sophistication throughout human history. Smart cities are the current incarnation of this process, with increased complexity and social importance. This complexity has come to involve significant digital components and has thus come to raise the associated cybersecurity concerns. Major security relevant events can cascade into the connected systems making up a smart city, causing significant disruption of function and economic damage. The present paper aims to survey the landscape of scientific publication related to cybersecurity-related issues in relation to smart cities. Relevant papers were selected based on the number of citations and the quality of the publishing journal as a proxy indicator for scientific relevance. Cybersecurity will be shown to be reflected in the selected literature as an extremely relevant concern in the operation of smart cities. Generally, cybersecurity is implemented in actual cities through the concerted application of both mature existing technologies and emerging new approaches.

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A Tale of two "Smart Cities": Investigating the Echoes of New Public Management and Governance Discourses in Smart City Projects in Brazil

Cited by 12 publications

References 17 publications

The Smart City as Global Discourse: Storylines and Critical Junctures across 27 Cities

The Smart City as Global Discourse: Storylines and Critical Junctures across 27 Cities

A mission to converge for inclusion? The smart city and the women of Seelampur

The Need for Cybersecurity in Industrial Revolution and Smart Cities

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