Smart city planning and the challenges of informality in India

Prasad, Deepti; Alizadeh, Tooran; Dowling, Robyn

doi:10.1177/20438206231156655

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“…It has overemphasised infrastructure growth, beautification of cities and the development of smart solutions based on information technology. For instance, smart parking systems for cars, internet and mobile-based citizen engagement, digitalised public transportation, ‘high-end residential, commercial, and entertainment facilities’ (Prasad et al, 2023), etc., mainly attract and ultimately benefit middle-class city dwellers. On the other hand, these smart solutions have failed to consider the marginalised groups (such as migrants) and urban poor, and cater to middle- and high-income groups, which consequently deepens the existing socio-economic inequalities (Das, 2020; Ghosh & Arora, 2021).…”

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Epistemic Violence Embedded in Urban Policy: Locating Internal Migrants in Pune’s Smart City Mission

Rajput

2024

Urbanisation

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This article argues that the fundamental cause for migrants’ exclusion, precarity and the othering process in the ‘smart city’ lies in the epistemic violence against them, embedded in the Smart City Mission itself, which develops the knowledge framework of ‘inclusion and exclusion’. An epistemology constructs and shapes the knowledge and ideas of smart cities and the power structures which consequently influence urban government functionaries, urban planners and officials of the Smart City Mission Project Corporation. This constructed knowledge and perception of the smart city serves the interests of the ‘middle-class citizen’ by giving overwhelming importance to smart technologies and infrastructure growth. On the other hand, it systematically disadvantages internal migrants by excluding them at several levels. This epistemic violence has successfully distorted the reality of the existence and contribution of migrants in cities and portrayed a picture of ‘feel-good cities’ pleasing their middle-class citizens. At the same time, it deflects inclusion-directed interventions which would have had a significant positive impact on the lives of the migrants. It normalises the miseries of migrants and validates the salience of urban policy in protecting migrants’ rights. Consequently, migrants experience multiple and interconnected forms of violence and victimhood in their everyday life and remain unheard.

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Epistemic Violence Embedded in Urban Policy: Locating Internal Migrants in Pune’s Smart City Mission

Rajput

2024

Urbanisation

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“…Failure to recognise or give value to informal urbanism : The vast majority of smart city programmes across the Global South (e.g. India, Brazil and China) reinforce and reproduce the spatial and socio-economic exclusion and dispossession of marginalised groups by failing to recognise, give value and appropriately account for pre-existing urban informality (Prasad et al, 2023; Willis, 2019), where ‘informality must be understood as an idiom of urbanisation, a logic through which differential spatial value is produced and managed’ (Roy and AlSayyad, 2004: 233). An abundance of informal settlement demolition/clearance projects – integrated with ambitious smart city plans across the Southern cities to make ways for international IT parks and luxury housing to serve the sector – is mostly acknowledged in the existing empirical studies.…”

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The right to the smart city in the Global South: A research agenda

Alizadeh

Prasad

2023

Urban Studies

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Urban research has increasingly embraced the Global South, as recent critical scholarship continues opening to Southern cities, scholars and ideas generated from the South. Here, we (the authors, two women of the Global South) think strategically about ‘the Southern urban critique’, ‘the right to the city’ and ‘smart cities’– as well as some limitations of doing so. Intrigued by the fast pace of smart city development across the Global South, and informed by the ongoing critical debates and increasing empirical work focused on the unfolding of ‘smart’ in the Southern cities, we put forward a research agenda ‘the right to the smart city in the Global South’. Through three lenses of expose, propose and politicise this research agenda articulates the smart city shortcomings from a Southern critical perspective to elevate the ongoing empirical studies on the subject, to shed light on the gaps in knowledge, and to produce a normative alternative vision for ‘just smart city’. Our challenge to readers is to help create such smart cities, to engage with and reflect on the arguments in this positioning piece, and then complement them with further normative, future-oriented work – informed by empirical knowledge – to fully map out the particularities of an alternative Southern smart city, to inform planning and policymaking for just smart cities, and to enact the right to the smart city in the Global South.

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Comprehensive analysis of digital twins in smart cities: a 4200-paper bibliometric study

El-Agamy,

Sayed,

AL Akhatatneh

et al. 2024

Artif Intell Rev

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This survey paper comprehensively reviews Digital Twin (DT) technology, a virtual representation of a physical object or system, pivotal in Smart Cities for enhanced urban management. It explores DT's integration with Machine Learning for predictive analysis, IoT for real-time data, and its significant role in Smart City development. Addressing the gap in existing literature, this survey analyzes over 4,220 articles from the Web of Science, focusing on unique aspects like datasets, platforms, and performance metrics. Unlike other studies in the field, this research paper distinguishes itself through its comprehensive and bibliometric approach, analyzing over 4,220 articles and focusing on unique aspects like datasets, platforms, and performance metrics. This approach offers an unparalleled depth of analysis, enhancing the understanding of Digital Twin technology in Smart City development and setting a new benchmark in scholarly research in this domain. The study systematically identifies emerging trends and thematic topics, utilizing tools like VOSviewer for data visualization. Key findings include publication trends, prolific authors, and thematic clusters in research. The paper highlights the importance of DT in various urban applications, discusses challenges and limitations, and presents case studies showcasing successful implementations. Distinguishing from prior studies, it offers detailed insights into emerging trends, future research directions, and the evolving role of policy and governance in DT development, thereby making a substantial contribution to the field.

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Smart city planning and the challenges of informality in India

Cited by 10 publications

References 47 publications

Epistemic Violence Embedded in Urban Policy: Locating Internal Migrants in Pune’s Smart City Mission

Epistemic Violence Embedded in Urban Policy: Locating Internal Migrants in Pune’s Smart City Mission

The right to the smart city in the Global South: A research agenda

Comprehensive analysis of digital twins in smart cities: a 4200-paper bibliometric study

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