Smart urbanism : utopian vision or false dawn? / edited by Simon Marvin, Andrés Luque-Ayala and Colin McFarlane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marvin, Simon, 1963- editor.

Luque-Ayala, Andrés, editor.

McFarlane, Colin, 1979- editor.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization.

Intelligent sensors.

Information technology.

City planning--Technological innovations.

City planning.

Physical Description:

xv, 196 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lonodn ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

Summary:

All over the world, an emerging form of smart urbanism is increasingly presented as a vital response to meeting the future challenges of the urban condition. The promise of smart urbanism - from smart cities to smart infrastructures, buildings and grids - is that digital technologies can provide solutions to fundamental problems, from environmental sustainability and the governance of increasingly complex cities to service delivery and social inclusion. Key voices in these wide-ranging debates and initiatives include technology companies, national governments, supranational agencies and civil society organisations. All of these, in different ways, claim crucial roles for digital technologies across urban life, including managing and controlling infrastructures, achieving greater effectiveness in service demand and provision, reducing carbon emissions, developing greater social interaction and community networks and rebooting economic growth - all of this whilst increasing political transparency and rolling out innovative systems for holding authorities to account. But can cities be simply rebooted through the integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods, infrastructures and people? Is the smart urbanism offer about new possibilities for the future transformation of our cities, or is it just a sophisticated form of 'business-as-usual', a mere tweaking of existing arrangements? This book evaluates the contemporary promise of smart urbanism and critically appraises its potential. It brings together leading international researchers on smart cities to critically address these discourses and practices across the world, from India to the USA and from South Africa to Europe. It examines what drives smart city initiatives and to what ends, evaluates what new capabilities are being created by whom and with what exclusions, explores how smart city initiatives are being differently developed and contested, considers how these processes vary within and across cities and investigates their social, political, economic and environmental consequences. Smart Urbanism is an essential resource for advanced-level students and early-career researchers across urban studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction / Andrés Luque-Ayala Luque-Ayala, Andrés, Colin McFarlane McFarlane, Colin, Simon Marvin Marvin, Simon 1

2 Smart cities and the politics of urban data / Rob Kitchin Kitchin, Rob, Tracey P. Lauriault Lauriault, Tracey P., Gavin McArdle McArdle, Gavin 16

3 IBM and the visual formation of smart cities / Donald McNeill McNeill, Donald 34

4 The smart entrepreneurial city: Dholera and 100 other Utopias in India / Ayonn Datta Datta, Ayonn 52

5 Getting smart about smart cities in Cape Town: beyond the rhetoric / Nancy Odendaal Odendaal, Nancy 71

6 Programming environments: environmentality and citizen sensing in the smart city / Jennifer Gabrys Gabrys, Jennifer 88

7 Smart city initiatives and the Foucauldian logics of governing through code / Francisco R. Klauser Klauser, Francisco R., Ola Söderström Söderström, Ola 108

8 Geographies of smart urban power / Gareth Powells Powells, Gareth, Harriet Bulkeley Bulkeley, Harriet, Anthony McLean McLean, Anthony 125

9 Test bed as urban epistemology / Nerea Calvillo Calvillo, Nerea, Orit Halpern Halpern, Orit, Jesse LeCavalier LeCavalier, Jesse, Wolfgang Pietsch Pietsch, Wolfgang 145

10 Beyond the corporate smart city? Glimpses of other possibilities of smartness / Robert G. Hollands Hollands, Robert G. 168

11 Conclusion / Colin McFarlane McFarlane, Colin, Simon Marvin Marvin, Simon, Andrés Luque-Ayala Luque-Ayala, Andrés 185.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

9781138844223

1138844225

9781138844230

1138844233

OCLC:

909324869