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Smart Urbanism: Utopian vision or false dawn? book cover

1st Edition

Smart Urbanism Utopian vision or false dawn?

Edited By Simon Marvin, Andrés Luque-Ayala, Colin McFarlane Copyright 2016
212 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Smart Urbanism (SU) – the rebuilding of cities through the integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods, networked infrastructures and people – is being represented as a unique emerging ‘solution’ to the majority of problems faced by cities today. SU discourses, enacted by technology companies, national governments and supranational agencies alike, claim a supremacy of urban... Read more
    1. Introduction
      Andrés Luque-Ayala, Colin McFarlane and Simon Marvin

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

    3. IBM and the visual formation of smart cities
      Donald McNeill

    4. The smart entrepreneurial city: Dholera and a 100 other utopias in India
      Ayona Datta

    5. Getting smart about smart cities in Cape Town: Beyond the rhetoric
      Nancy Odendaal

    6. Programming environments: Environmentality and citizen sensing in the smart city
      Jennifer Gabrys

    7. Smart-city initiatives and the Foucauldian logics of governing through code
      Francisco Klauser and Ola Söderström

    8. Geographies of smart urban power
      Gareth Powells, Harriet Bulkeley and Anthony McLean

    9. Test-Bed as urban epistemology
      Nerea Calvillo, Orit Halpern, Jesse LeCavalier and Wolfgang Pietsch

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

    11. Conclusions
      Colin McFarlane Andrés Luque-Ayala and Simon Marvin

    Biography

    Simon Marvin is Professor and Director of the Urban Institute at Sheffield University.

    Andrés Luque-Ayala is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography at Durham University.

    Colin McFarlane is a Reader in the Department of Geography, Durham University.

    'This collection of essays is destined to become a key reference point in debates about smart cities. The contributors offer a rich series of theoretically informed case studies that critically examine the discourses, infrastructures and practices that constitute "smart"; together they significantly advance our understanding of the histories and geographies of smart cities as well as the diversities and uncertainties of their governance, economics, sustainability and sociality.'
    Gillian Rose, Professor of Cultural Geography at The Open University, UK, and Fellow of the British Academy

    ‘Smart Urbanism’ is a major reference point in key debates about smart urban governance. The rich and theoretically informed case studies on the Global North and South as well make the book a must-read for graduate students and early career researchers in urban studies.
    László Cseke1, Hungarian Geographical Bulletin 65, 2016

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