2015
DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2015.1036913
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The Variegated Economics and the Potential Politics of the Smart City

Abstract: The smart city discourse has gained increasing popularity within contemporary cities across the globe, mobilizing powerful economic actors and hegemonic public-private coalitions. This article argues that, in spite of the common wisdom within critical urban scholarship looking at the smart city as a policy framework aligned with the interests of powerful private and public actors such as multinational corporations and the state, the smart city model of local economic regeneration and governance goes beyond thi… Show more

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“…De esta forma, la smart city encuentra perfecto acomodo en las estrategias de desarrollo económico predominantes, tanto en el mundo desarrollado como en el mundo en vías de desarrollo (Rossi, 2015). En este contexto, la apelación a la necesidad de disponer de estrategias de ciudad inteligente y a la inversión en sistemas inteligentes para los diferentes sistemas urbanos (movilidad, agua, residuos, emergencias, seguridad, etc.)…”
Section: El Mito De La Competitividad La Acumulación Tecnológica Comunclassified
“…De esta forma, la smart city encuentra perfecto acomodo en las estrategias de desarrollo económico predominantes, tanto en el mundo desarrollado como en el mundo en vías de desarrollo (Rossi, 2015). En este contexto, la apelación a la necesidad de disponer de estrategias de ciudad inteligente y a la inversión en sistemas inteligentes para los diferentes sistemas urbanos (movilidad, agua, residuos, emergencias, seguridad, etc.)…”
Section: El Mito De La Competitividad La Acumulación Tecnológica Comunclassified
“…New technologies offer the potential to connect disparate communities in useful ways and to improve the responsiveness of public and private organizations (Larty, Jack, & Lockett, 2017). They could also improve the functional efficiency of cities and help to tackle climate change and other environmental hazards (see Rossi, 2016, on smart cities). However, such innovations also threaten people and places that struggle to adapt (Pugh, 2017), and raise growing concerns about personal security and the safety of communities in the face of terror networks.…”
Section: Ivan Turok and Madeleine Hatfieldmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…selling public real estate assets, fostering new smart-city initiatives, retrofitting the old building stock etc. ), while the urban agenda and other local development policies had little place in the debate and public programming (Gabellini, 2014;Rossi, 2015).…”
Section: Institutional and Planning System Reformsmentioning
confidence: 99%