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    Reframing, reimagining and remaking smart cities. The Programmable City Working Paper 20


    Kitchin, Rob (2016) Reframing, reimagining and remaking smart cities. The Programmable City Working Paper 20. Working Paper. OSF (Open Science Framework).

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    Abstract

    Over the past decade the concept and development of smart cities has unfolded rapidly, with many city administrations implementing smart city initiatives and strategies and a diverse ecology of companies and researchers producing and deploying smart city technologies. In contrast to those that seek to realise the benefits of a smart city vision, a number of critics have highlighted a number of shortcomings, challenges and risks with such endeavours. This short paper outlines a third path, one that aims to realise the benefits of smart city initiatives while recasting the thinking and ethos underpinning them and addressing their deficiencies and limitations. It argues that smart city thinking and initiatives need to be reframed, reimagined and remade in six ways. Three of these concern normative and conceptual thinking with regards to goals, cities and epistemology, and three concern more practical and political thinking and praxes with regards to management/governance, ethics and security, and stakeholders and working relationships. The paper does not seek to be definitive or comprehensive, but rather to provide conceptual and practical suggestions and stimulate debate about how to productively recast smart urbanism and the creation of smart cities.

    Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
    Additional Information: This short paper was written as an introductory framing essay for the ‘Creating smart cities’ workshop to be hosted by the Programmable City project at Maynooth University, Ireland, 5-6 September 2016. Published as an open access pre-print on SocArXiv: https://osf.io/cyjhg/
    Keywords: smart cities; framing; vision; ethos; politics; urbanism;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography
    Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > National Institute for Regional and Spatial analysis, NIRSA
    Item ID: 7354
    Depositing User: Prof. Rob Kitchin
    Date Deposited: 23 Aug 2016 11:08
    Publisher: OSF (Open Science Framework)
    Refereed: Yes
    Funders: European Research Council (ERC)
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    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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