ICT system for SMART CITY management

Studziński, Jan; Brylka, Robert; Kazubski, Krzysztof

doi:10.2991/ict4s-14.2014.31

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“…Smart city research in the ICT4S community has focused on the design of specific products to affect consumption patterns [7], [8], to provide ICT-based management and evaluation tools [9], [10], [11], as well as to understand the new relationships between technologists and policymakers forged in smart city projects [12], [13], even making structural critiques about the agency of citizens herein [14].…”

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Sidewalk and Toronto: Critical Systems Heuristics and the Smart City

McCord¹,

Becker²

2019

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Smart cities', urban development projects that design computational systems and sensory technology to monitor activity and regulate energy consumption and resource distribution, are a frontier for the prospective deployment of ICTs for sustainability. Often reduced to technological problems of optimization, these projects have implications far beyond narrow environmental and consumptive frames of sustainability. Studying them requires frameworks that support us in examining technological and environmental sustainability dimensions jointly with social justice perspectives. This paper uses Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH) to examine the design of Sidewalk Toronto, an ongoing smart city development. We explore how the professed values guiding the project are contentiously enacted, and we argue that key stakeholders and beneficiaries in the planning process significantly constrain the emancipatory and transformative potential of the project by marginalizing the role of residents in determining project purposes. This analysis contributes an example that illustrates the relevance of critical systems thinking in ICT4S and offers CSH as a conceptual frame that supports critical reflection on the tensions between the visions and realities of 'sustainable' ways of organizing human life.

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