Cities for the Many not the Few [Audio podcast episode]

Amin, Ash; J, Carmel Christy K; Çavdar, Ayşe; Lisiak, Agata; Richter, Anna

doi:10.51428/tsr.xamh8402

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“…Lastly, municipal governments and organisations need to support and encourage a realignment of the balance of power that exists in smart city decision making processes. This means, giving citizens a greater role and influence on the decision-making process(es) that impact their urban environments and communities [204]. After all, the smart technologies these large ICT vendors promote, offer the potential to empower, educate, engage and involve urban citizens in the debates and decisions that impact their lives, the wellbeing of their communities, and the urban environment they live in [205].…”

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“…Such a shift requires early involvement by all citizens in smart city development, democratised decision-making, empowering people groups to determine the shape and form of their environments [2], and how ICT should be deployed to meet their needs [14]. A decision-making process that adopts a multi-stakeholder perspective to CSV [160], addressing the descriptive, instrumental and normative aspects of CSR [163] to deepen understanding of SDGs related to Doing so requires CSV solutions to urban inequality problems [160], balancing CSR with corporate performance [163] (see Figure 1), and demonstrating a willingness to empower and include citizens in problem identification and solutions design [204,205].…”

Section: Addressing Community and Business Expectationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, empowering, educating, and involving all in identifying the problems relevant to urban inequalities and the selection of solutions to reduce them. An approach requiring business commitment to resolving inequality problems, implementing solutions that may not generate shortterm financial gains, and to dissolving and rebalancing power in smart city decisionmaking [204].…”

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Perspective Chapter: Smart City(ies) – Citizen Equalisers or Inequality Generators

Roberts¹

2024

Sustainable Development

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The UN predicts that by 2050, 72% of the world’s population will be urban dwellers, a global migration and human shift that will ultimately lead to a significant social, economic and environmental transformation of urban environments. Not surprisingly, such a prediction has led to an increased interest in the growth of smart city(ies). Literature suggests that these ecosystems, that is smart city(ies), increase productivity and grow social, human and economic capital, and have the potential to reduce inequality(ies) amongst its citizens. This chapter will argue, that such expectations of inequality reduction, may not be the case. That current technocentric approaches fail to address urban problems associated with inequality, including urban sprawl, poverty, higher rates of unemployment, growing urban costs, and housing affordability. Recommendations will be made for the use of alternative mechanisms in the design of these ecosystems, to achieve the ultimate goal of reduced inequality, while simultaneously creating more liveable, vibrant and social, economic and sustainable city(ies) and community(ies) of the future.

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Section: Addressing Community and Business Expectationsmentioning

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Section: Addressing Community and Business Expectationsmentioning

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Perspective Chapter: Smart City(ies) – Citizen Equalisers or Inequality Generators

Roberts¹

2024

Sustainable Development

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“…The focus of this chapter is on the everyday, the mundane, the micro and how they can sometimes produce extraordinary situations. This chapter builds on the literature that has emerged over the last decades about the politics of public space, including Iveson's (2013) work on the appropriation of public spaces by active/activist citizens involved in "DIY urbanism," Holston's (2008) research on practices of everyday resistance and insurgent citizenship, Hou's (2010) work on guerrilla urbanism, and Amin, Massey, and Thrift's (2000) interventions on claiming rights to the city. Others, such as Mitchell (2003), have considered public space's potential as a locus for (counter-)politics and activism, drawing on Lefebvre's (1974Lefebvre's ( /1991 trialectics (De Backer et al 2019).…”

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Madame Ruetabaga’s Prefigurative Politics at the Urban Fringes of Grenoble

Dijkema,

Cohen

2023

The Urban Book Series

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During its practice of critical social pedagogy in street workshops, Madame Ruetabaga has shown that it is able to create a space that is radically open, where groups form and dissolve over a period of two hours every week. The workshops lay the basis for a form of prefigurative politics in an area generally to be perceived as anomic and as a place of violence and tensions. During the street workshops, Madame Ruetabaga temporarily challenges power relations and suspends rules to replace them with new ones for the specific period of time and in a specific space of the square. The association provides a space for children to experiment with new kinds of freedom and limits that differ from those at home or in institutional spaces. This example provides an alternative view to both the pessimism of the death of public space and the utopian idea of mass movements challenging global capitalism à la Lefebvre and Harvey. The focus is on the everyday, the mundane, the micro and how they can sometimes produce extraordinary situations.

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Contribution of energy based circularity for better environmental quality: an evidence from Bias-corrected linear dynamic approach

Usman,

Hussain,

Anwar

et al. 2024

Discov Sustain

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Environmental behavior needs a keen intervention to avoid the upcoming worse outcomes of the energy utilization. Global warming is transitioning towards the global boiling stage and the reason behind the faster growth of renewable energy resources exploration. The present study empirically investigates the circularity impact of the renewable energy on the environment. Two different models of the environment were estimated by applying biased corrected method on 28 low income countries from 1990 to 2019. In this study, we develop a circularity index on the basis of renewable energy sources and found that in low income economies circularity brings a positive impact on the environment in both models. The study also concludes that digitization has also positive implication in terms of environmental quality. In the sample study trade shows negative as well as positive association with environment while economic growth, financial development and energy use have positive impact on the environment. The study suggested policies based on the circular practices for energy generation to achieve the sustainable development goals.

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Cities for the Many not the Few [Audio podcast episode]

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

Perspective Chapter: Smart City(ies) – Citizen Equalisers or Inequality Generators

Perspective Chapter: Smart City(ies) – Citizen Equalisers or Inequality Generators

Madame Ruetabaga’s Prefigurative Politics at the Urban Fringes of Grenoble

Contribution of energy based circularity for better environmental quality: an evidence from Bias-corrected linear dynamic approach

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