Exploring the epistemic politics of urban niche experiments

Cook, Matthew; Horne, Ralph; Potter, Stephen; Valdez, Alan-Miguel

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“…Smart city projects are cross-sector projects which aim to create the conditions needed for smart city innovations and the existing sociotechnical configuration of local practices to mutually adapt. Smart city projects set in motion a dynamic learning environment, on-site experimentation with smart city innovations, institutional reconfiguration processes, and other complementary changes which support the wider adoption of smart city technologies and make it possible to solve issues of technical and social adaptation (Cohen et al, 2016;Cook et al, 2019).…”

Section: The Landscape-system-niche Connection In Smart City Transitionsmentioning

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Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective

Mora

Deakin

Batty

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Journal of Urban Technology

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This Special Issue begins with a middle-range theory of sustainable smart city transitions, which forms bridges between theorizing in smart city development studies and some of the foundational assumptions underpinning transition management and system innovation research, human geography, spatial planning, and critical urban scholarship. This interdisciplinary theoretical formulation details our evidence-based interpretation of how smart city transitions should be conceptualized and enacted in order to overcome the oversimplification fallacy resulting from corporate discourses on smart urbanism. By offering a broad and realistic understanding of smart city transitions, the proposed theory combines different smart-city-related concepts in a model which attempts to expose what causal mechanisms surface in sustainable smart city transitions and to guide empirical inquiry in smart city research. Together with all the authors contributing to this Special Issue, our objective is to give smart city research more robust scientific foundations and to generate theoretical propositions upon which subsequent large-scale empirical testing can be conducted. With the proposed middle-range theory, different empirical settings can be investigated by using the same analytical elements, facilitating the cross-case analysis and synthesis of the systematic research efforts which are progressively contributing to shedding light on the assemblage of sustainable smart city transitions.

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Section: The Landscape-system-niche Connection In Smart City Transitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective

Mora

Deakin

Batty

et al. 2020

Journal of Urban Technology

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“…It also pioneered self-build housing and low-carbon housing developments (PRP Architects 2010). As such, MK is open to new ideas and 'smart' is the latest in a long line of socio-technical developments to inflect developments in the city (Valdez et al 2018).…”

Section: Uncertainty and The Governance Of Smart City Developmentsmentioning

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“…Funded by the UK government, and led by the Open University and MK Council, this project focused on the development of an urban platform built around a data hub and various 'apps' to augment infrastructure, such as transport, energy and water infrastructure. Finally, informed by the outcomes of the MK:Smart project, 'smart' is now focused in MK on aspects of the city where it closely aligns with governance and policy rationalities, such as transport planning (Cook et al 2018).…”

Section: Uncertainty and The Governance Of Smart City Developmentsmentioning

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The Politics of Uncertainty

Scoones¹,

Stirling²

2020

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This collection fills an important gap in our understanding of the role of uncertainty in the science-society nexus. It illustrates the growing awareness that, in this context, uncertainty is essentially a political concern to be addressed by better governance rather than a scientific problem to be solved by improved techniques. Scientific uncertainty will continue to be a challenge for contemporary societies as long as the legitimacy of policy decision-making and action is based on trust in science.Professor Silvio Funtowicz, Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen; formerly EU Joint Research Centre, Ispra What should we do with uncertainty? Not abolish it with facts, this wide-ranging essay collection argues. Introduced by two of our most incisive analysts of alternative social futures, the book delves into today's most significant governance challenges and shows how uncertainty leads us to reimagine the politics of modernity. In these turbulent times, this is a book to read, savor and read again. Professor Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School The old world order is fading into history: what a new one will look like is currently uncertain. In fields as diverse as climate change, finance, urban futures, pandemics, mass migration and many more, the future looks less predictable and demands alternative approaches. This well-timed book lays out what they might be.

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“…A common characteristic of many smart cities programmes and projects is the reliance on experimentation to test new technologies in situ (Cook, Horne, Potter, & Valdez, 2018;Evans, Karvonen, & Raven, 2016;Karvonen, 2018). Lina Berglund-Snodgrass and Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren (2020) draw on neo-institutional theory to compare and contrast how the traditional 'public sector' logic of urban planning is influenced by an emerging 'experimental logic' that they characterise as 'testbed planning.'…”

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Urban Planning and the Smart City: Projects, Practices and Politics

Karvonen

Cook

Haarstad

2020

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Today’s smart city agendas are the latest iteration of urban sociotechnical innovation. Their aim is to use information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve the economic and environmental performance of cities while hopefully providing a better quality of life for residents. Urban planners have a long-standing tradition of aligning technological innovation with the built environment and residents but have been only peripherally engaged in smart cities debates to date. However, this situation is beginning to change as iconic, one-of-a-kind smart projects are giving way to the ‘actually existing’ smart city and ICT interventions are emerging as ubiquitous features of twenty-first century cities. The aim of this thematic issue is to explore the various ways that smart cities are influencing and being influenced by urban planning. The articles provide empirical evidence of how urban planners are engaging with processes of smart urbanisation through projects, practices, and politics. They reveal the profound and lasting influence of digitalisation on urban planning and the multiple opportunities for urban planners to serve as champions and drivers of the smart city.

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Exploring the epistemic politics of urban niche experiments

Cited by 6 publications

References 25 publications

Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective

Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective

The Politics of Uncertainty

Urban Planning and the Smart City: Projects, Practices and Politics

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