`Lecture 17 - Smart Cities

What’s a smart city? name 3 characteristics

1. ICT-driven, technological assemblage

2. Mobilising knowledge

3. City-marketing

What’s an energetic society and how do smart cities empower this?

A society where individuals and groups are increasingly involved in active participation, self-organization, and decentralized decision-making

Can be stimulated through open data so citizens can develop own technological tools

What is platform-based civic crowdfunding

citizens can propose local projects and help fund it themselves

What’s the critique on Platform Based-Civic Crowdfunding

• Smart-City And Crowdfunding ‘Loosely Coupled’

• Strengthening Existing Network

• Hybridizes Public and Private Goods

• Gatekeepers

• Web-genic

• Not More Efficient

What does ‘Panopticon Or Panacea’ refer to regarding smart cities?

the debate between Innovation & Empowerment vs. Control & Surveillance

Explain the relevance of Richard Sennett’s concepts for smart cities

• Ville & Cité

• Open

• Modest

• Ville & Cité:

Ville = physical city, Cité = lived city

Argues that urban technology focuses on the ‘ville’, rather than the cité

• Open

Advocates for ‘open cities’'; flexible, adaptable and incomplete: contrasting technocratic approaches.

• Modest

Argues that planners should acknowledge that, even with the use of technology, they can’t control or predict everything that happens in cities

What is the difference between a prescriptive and a coordination Smart City?

Prescriptive: technocratic, top-down, optimising and automating control

Coordination: participatory, bottom-up, co-productive

What does ‘Friction-Free City’ refer to?

A city without friction; anything that slows down, complicates or disrupts urban processes

• automating mobility, streamlining governance, predicting behaviour, optimizing services