The Smart City and other ICT-led techno-imaginaries: Any room for dialogue with Degrowth?

March, Hug

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.09.154

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“…Borghi et al, (2014) show how, in Genoa, Italy, smart city solutions are used towards the implementation of CE. Yet, the smart city concept is criticized for its blind embrace of technological solutions, its lack of consideration of how this influences human behavior, as well as the socio-environmental impacts of information and communication technologies on future cities (March, 2016). Furthermore, a lack of technology integration in city infrastructure or limited access to technology for, means that some initiatives can be stymied (Neirotti et al, 2014).…”

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Circular Cities: Mapping Six Cities in Transition

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Cherim²,

Bocken³

2018

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

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Abstract:Urbanisation and climate change are urging cities to chart novel paths towards sustainability. European cities are increasingly looking to the circular economy (CE) as one route to achieve a sustainable future. The CE concept describes how flows of resources moving through economies can be 'closed'. The aim of this article is to explore how emergent 'circular cities' are adopting CE as a strategy. We found that leadership of the agenda, building adaptable future visions, using experimental approaches (such as living labs), developing contextual knowledge about resource use, and engaging with diverse stakeholders to be important. However, we also identify that there is a lack of consensus on what a circular city constitutes and a need to untangle how a circular city might be developed in practice. The research contributes to the field by outlining emergent cases, a set of common strategies, and providing an initial conceptualisation of a circular city.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Circular Cities: Mapping Six Cities in Transition

Prendeville

Cherim²,

Bocken³

2018

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

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“…WoS is one of the most famous scientific citation index databases in the world [1,28]. Labels like cyber city, virtual city, digital city, wired city, electronic city, flexicity, information city, telicity and techno-city were posted on those cities fueled by ICT until the largest abstraction label smart city was proposed [3,[29][30][31]. In this study, the "smart city" related keywords were searched in the topic field, and the results showed that the publications first appeared in 1998 [32,33].…”

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Bibliometric Analysis on Smart Cities Research

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Smart cities have been a global concern in recent years, involving comprehensive scientific research. To obtain a structural overview and assist researchers in making insights into the characteristics of smart cities research, bibliometric analysis was carried out in this paper. With the application of the bibliometric analysis software VOSviewer and CiteSpace, 4409 smart cities were identified by the core collection of the Web of Science in publications between 1998 and 2019 and used in the analysis of this paper. Concretely, this research visually demonstrates a comprehensive overview of the field relating to smart cities in terms of the production of regular publications, main domain of smart cities researchers, most influential countries (institutions, sources and authors), and interesting research directions in the smart city researches. We also present the research collaboration among countries (regions), organizations and authors based on a series of cooperation analyses. The bibliometric analysis of the existing work provided a valuable and seminal reference for researchers and practitioners in smart cities-related research communities.

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“…In modern industrial production, people rely on specialists to produce the necessary tools to satisfy their needs. In contrast, conviviality fosters the control of the use of resources and promotes friendly relationships and reciprocity between individuals and their environment [23,24].…”

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Assessing the Openness and Conviviality of Open Source Technology: The Case of the WikiHouse

Priavolou

Niaros

2019

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The housing crisis has received growing interest from academia, industry, and policymakers. Open construction systems have emerged as a promising solution to achieve long-term social, economic, and environmental sustainability. In this paper, extensive fieldwork was conducted to investigate a case of an open construction system, namely, the WikiHouse Den Bosch. The research framework builds on a combined view of two main concepts: “conviviality” and “openness”. The aim is to provide an in-depth understanding of the relationship between these two aspects and the literature regarding “Design Global Manufacture Local”. The analysis showed that conviviality and openness are complex and context-specific factors. The paper concludes by outlining the need for an “institutionalized conviviality” to open up new pathways for future practice to address sustainability issues.

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The Smart City and other ICT-led techno-imaginaries: Any room for dialogue with Degrowth?

Cited by 100 publications

References 67 publications

Circular Cities: Mapping Six Cities in Transition

Circular Cities: Mapping Six Cities in Transition

Bibliometric Analysis on Smart Cities Research

Assessing the Openness and Conviviality of Open Source Technology: The Case of the WikiHouse

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