Smart City

Smart Cities

This concept depends on the concept of Data

Definitions

What Is a City?

natural history
epistemology
growth and prospects (see Smil)

Definitions of Smart City

Marcus Foth’s conception of “urban informatics” is similarly capacious: it encompasses “the collection, classification, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of recorded knowledge,” either (1) in a city or (2) “of,relating to, characteristic of, or constituting a city.” See Foth, ed., Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City (Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2009), xxiii. Such a definition acknowledges a wide variety of informational functions, contents, and contexts.Yet his focus on recorded knowledge, and on informatics’ reputation as a “science” of data processing, still limits our understanding of the city’s epistemological functions.

Mattern, Shannon. A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.

Foth, Marcus, ed. Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City. Hershey: Information Science Reference, 2009.

Serey, Joel, Luis Quezada, Miguel Alfaro, Guillermo Fuertes, Rodrigo Ternero, Gustavo Gatica, Sebastian Gutierrez, and Manuel Vargas. “Methodological Proposals for the Development of Services in a Smart City: A Literature Review.” Sustainability 12, no. 24 (2020): 10249. https://doi.org/10/gpx29d.

Critique

Analysis of platform interactions:

Barns, Sarah. Platform Urbanism: Negotiating Platform Ecosystems in Connected Cities. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

Politics

Karvonen, Andrew. “Urban Techno-Politics: Knowing, Governing, and Imagining the City.” Science as Culture 29, no. 3 (2020): 417–24. https://doi.org/10/gg5vfs.

Autonomy and Sovereignty

Cf. technological sovereignty as a concept that can extend to nonhumans. Who has the social license to operate smart cities?

Mann, Monique, Peta Mitchell, Marcus Foth, and Irina Anastasiu. “#BlockSidewalk to Barcelona: Technological Sovereignty and the Social License to Operate Smart Cities.” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 71, no. 9 (2020): 1103–15. https://doi.org/10/gj795m.

Sustainability of Smart Cities and AI

Yigitcanlar, Tan, and Federico Cugurullo. “The Sustainability of Artificial Intelligence: An Urbanistic Viewpoint from the Lens of Smart and Sustainable Cities.” Sustainability 12, no. 20 (2020): 8548. https://doi.org/10/gmdgv5.

References

Clark, Jennifer. Uneven Innovation: The Work of Smart Cities. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.

Colding, Johan, Marita Wallhagen, Patrik Sörqvist, Lars Marcus, Karl Hillman, Karl Samuelsson, and Stephan Barthel. “Applying a Systems Perspective on the Notion of the Smart City.” Smart Cities 3, no. 2 (2020): 420–29. https://doi.org/10/gh8dxp.

Loke, Seng W., and Andry Rakotonirainy, eds. The Automated City: Internet of Things an Ubiquitous Artificial Intelligence. Cham: Springer, 2021.

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