Smart cities as corporate storytelling

Söderström, Ola; Paasche, Till F.; Klauser, Francisco

doi:10.1080/13604813.2014.906716

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“…Scholars interrogate the relationship between smart city projects and neoliberalism, particularly concerning the corporatization of city management and technocratic governance (e.g., Greenfield, 2013;Townsend, 2013;Söderström et al, 2014;Vanolo, 2014;Calzada and Cobo, 2015;Hollands, 2015;Kitchin, 2015); draw attention to the effects of urban surveillance and digital governance facilitated by "big data" (e.g., Graham, 2012;Gabrys, 2014;Kitchin, 2014;Rabari and Storper, 2015); query the claim that smart cities necessarily contribute to sustainable development (e.g., Gargiulo Morelli et al, 2013;Viitanen and Kingston, 2014;; lastly, highlight the apparent hype surrounding smart city initiatives driven by marketing campaigns focused on finding uses for new technologies (e.g., Saunders and Baeck, 2015). Throughout, questions have emerged about how to (re)cast the smart city with greater public, local inflection or, as Saunders and Baeck (2015) suggest, "rethinking smart cities from the ground up."…”

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Smart Cities: Towards a New Citizenship Regime? A Discourse Analysis of the British Smart City Standard

Joss¹,

Cook

Dayot

2017

Journal of Urban Technology

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Growing practice interest in smart cities has led to calls for a less technology-oriented and more citizen-centric approach. In response, this article investigates the citizenship mode promulgated by the smart city standard of the British Standards Institution. The analysis uses the concept of citizenship regime and a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods to discern key discursive frames defining the smart city and the particular citizenship dimensions brought into play. The results confirm an explicit citizenship rationale guiding the smart city (standard), although this displays some substantive shortcomings and contradictions. The article concludes with recommendations for both further theory and practice development.

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Smart Cities: Towards a New Citizenship Regime? A Discourse Analysis of the British Smart City Standard

Joss¹,

Cook

Dayot

2017

Journal of Urban Technology

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104

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“…Just as important as material motives and career ambition, the narrative of the smart city, as an interpretation of technological systems, rationalizes these urban transformations (Söderström, et al, 2014). In a commentary on smart cities research, geographer Rob Kitchin argues that it is problematic the way in which "much of the writing and rhetoric about smart cities" -whether stemming from business, academia, or government -"seeks to appear nonideological, commonsensical and pragmatic" [10].…”

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The spectrum of control: A social theory of the smart city

Sadowski¹,

Pasquale²

2015

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There is a certain allure to the idea that cities allow a person to both feel at home and like a stranger in the same place. That one can know the streets and shops, avenues and alleys, while also going days without being recognized. But as elites fill cities with “smart” technologies — turning them into platforms for the “Internet of Things” (IoT): sensors and computation embedded within physical objects that then connect, communicate, and/or transmit information with or between each other through the Internet — there is little escape from a seamless web of surveillance and power. This paper will outline a social theory of the “smart city” by developing our Deleuzian concept of the “spectrum of control.” We present two illustrative examples: biometric surveillance as a form of monitoring, and automated policing as a particularly brutal and exacting form of manipulation. We conclude by offering normative guidelines for governance of the pervasive surveillance and control mechanisms that constitute an emerging critical infrastructure of the “smart city.”

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“…A vida na cidade e a experiência urbana não se reduzem apenas ao controle, eficiência e previsibilidade, mas devem também estar abertas ao confronto, ao inesperado, e lidar com diferenças. Quase que em paralelo com essas visões cresce o número de especialistas e de autores, como Bell (2011), Greenfield (2013), Klichowski et al (2015), Söderström et al (2014), que enfatizam a necessidade de se promover um desenvolvimento mais centrado nas pessoas, porém tirando proveito dos recursos relacionados com a utilização de novas tecnologias.…”

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A agregação das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação ao espaço público urbano: reflexões em torno do Projeto CyberParks – COST TU 1306

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ResumoApresenta-se o Projeto CyberParks para discutir a relação entre o uso de meios digitais (smartphones, conexões wi-fi etc.) em espaços públicos (parques, jardins, praças etc.) e a contribuição das novas tecnologias para qualificar e aumentar a participação de usuários na sua produção e manutenção. CyberParks é guiado pelas questões: (1) Como as Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TIC) afetam o uso do espaço público? (2) Quais são os riscos associados à recente, mas acelerada, dinâmica de difusão das TIC no espaço urbano? (3) Como os usos identificados se enquadram no conceito de sociedade virtual? Em suma, trata-se de investigar a contribuição das TIC na transformação das cidades em contextos mais inclusivos, e não somente mais high tech. O projeto objetiva desvendar o papel das TIC na produção e no desenho de espaços híbridos. Uma premissa é aumentar o conhecimento das possibilidades que as TIC abrem para uma melhor compreensão da forma como as pessoas usam esses espaços. Discutem-se o âmbito e a pertinência da perspectiva de estudo focada na relação entre TIC e espaço público, apresentando objetivos do Projeto CyberParks. Em sequência, problematizam-se algumas das principais linhas de investigação, apresentando os resultados de um estudo de caso desenvolvido em Lisboa, Portugal. Palavras-chave: Espaços públicos abertos. Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação. Realidade aumen-tada e a cidade. Desenho urbano. Paisagem urbana. (parks, gardens, squares, etc.) Abstract In this paper we use the European research project CyberParks to discuss the relationship between digital media (smart phones, tablets, wi-fi network) and its use in public open spaces

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Smart cities as corporate storytelling

Cited by 719 publications

References 29 publications

Smart Cities: Towards a New Citizenship Regime? A Discourse Analysis of the British Smart City Standard

Smart Cities: Towards a New Citizenship Regime? A Discourse Analysis of the British Smart City Standard

The spectrum of control: A social theory of the smart city

A agregação das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação ao espaço público urbano: reflexões em torno do Projeto CyberParks – COST TU 1306

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