Entrepreneurial urbanism and technological panacea: Why Smart City planning needs to go beyond corporate visioning?

Kummitha, Rama Krishna Reddy

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2018.07.010

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“…Other desirable notions for future cities such as eco-city; resilient city; and liveable city have also been posited (Khan and Zaman, 2018). Moreover, there is an increasing focus not only on whether smart cities can also deliver sustainable outcomes (Martin et al, 2018), but also the extent to which smart city visions (with their often inherent 'technocratic' focus) can truly engage citizens as active participants in the visioning process (Joss, 2018;Kummitha, 2018).…”

Section: City Visioning: Origins and Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using urban foresight techniques in city visioning: Lessons from the Reading 2050 vision

Dixon

Montgomery²,

Horton-Baker³

et al. 2018

Local Economy

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The emergence of urban (or city) foresight techniques focuses on the need to create coherent city visions to plan and manage for future long-term change and create opportunities for new investment into the local urban economy. This paper reviews the concepts of 'co-created' city visioning and urban foresight, setting this in the context of new and emerging practice and policy in the UK, and elsewhere. The paper critically reviews the development of the vision for a small city (the 'Reading 2050' project, linked to the UK Future of Cities Foresight Programme), and the lessons it holds for visioning, foresight and planning, using the 'quadruple helix' framework as a conceptual lens for analysis.

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Section: City Visioning: Origins and Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using urban foresight techniques in city visioning: Lessons from the Reading 2050 vision

Dixon

Montgomery²,

Horton-Baker³

et al. 2018

Local Economy

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“…As a result, products or services meant to address social problems and help create social value fail to create the expected impact (Brown & Wyatt, 2010). For example, the socio-material literature argues that the temporal distance between technology development and its usage may result in technology being interpreted and used with little flexibility, leading to its ineffectiveness (Kummitha, 2018b;Orlikowski, 1992). Thus, efforts to bridge the processes of production and usage have become an important approach recently (Geissdoerfer, Bocken, & Hultink, 2016;Shapira, Ketchie, & Nehe, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

Design thinking in social organizations: Understanding the role of user engagement

Kummitha

2019

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Design thinking has recently gained significant attention as a potential approach to address major global problems. Although its practice is proven to contribute to advance organizational efficiency and address user needs, lack of understanding about its practice in social organizations limits our understanding about its social context. With this background, we study how users persuade social organizations to adopt design thinking. We conducted a qualitative study in four social organizations in India during 2008–2013 and interviewed 38 respondents to answer our research question. Our results indicate that the designer roles are blurred when social organizations adopt design thinking, where users in the form of interconnecting agency reduce the gap between designers and communities.

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“…Technology adoption is indispensable in developing Smart cities and there are two approaches to applying cutting-edge technologies to making existing cities smart. One is the techdriven method (TDM) and the other is the human-driven method (HDM) (Kummitha, 2018). In TDM, under the leading of government officials or policy makers, new services for Smart cities are developed by service providers or private companies equipped with technologies, in many cases for their business.…”

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“…In many development processes of Smart cities in the world, however, TDM has been the most common method used. An enormous number of innovative services for Smart cities have been proposed by researchers from all over the world, with vague hopes that these services will help to solve various problems confronting large cities (Kummitha, 2018). However, only a small number of them have been put to practical use and the rest have disappeared from (local) communities right after their commodification, due to their impracticality to communities.…”

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Necessity of the Needs Map in the Service Design for Smart Cities

Kim

2020

Front. Psychol.

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Recently, the issue of how to involve actual service users in the service designs for Smart cities has grown in importance, as this is a key factor in determining the serviceability and sustainability of developed services. Reckless participation of users can make the service design process inefficient and cause a cost increase. So, in this study, we propose the needs map which can be applied to various stages of service development and help service designers to make efficient and reasonable decisions without being too time-consuming. The proposed needs map is a schematization of theoretical concepts for Smart city planning in accordance with the framework of service-technology-infrastructure-management (STIM). Through the needs map, various urban problems, statistical data, and users' needs in a smart city are classified and analyzed concept by concept, and these focused analysis results suggest a proper direction to researchers in the service development plan. To demonstrate experimentally the feasibility of the needs map, we applied it in practice to a service design for the Smart city experience zone located in Daejeon, South Korea.

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Entrepreneurial urbanism and technological panacea: Why Smart City planning needs to go beyond corporate visioning?

Cited by 81 publications

References 120 publications

Using urban foresight techniques in city visioning: Lessons from the Reading 2050 vision

Using urban foresight techniques in city visioning: Lessons from the Reading 2050 vision

Design thinking in social organizations: Understanding the role of user engagement

Necessity of the Needs Map in the Service Design for Smart Cities

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