Previous scholarship on the smart city has expressed concern at the top-down, technocratic
nature of smart technologies and the lack of meaningful citizen participation in their …

How did one of the most historically automobile-dependent US cities end up with the first
large-scale modern US bike-sharing system? The story reveals that it is less about …

Concerns have been raised regarding smart city innovations leading to, or consolidating,
technocratic urban governance and the tokenization of citizens. Less research, however …

In this book, Paolo Cardullo embraces the important discussion on the emerging concern of
citizen rights within and beyond the current smart city agenda. The author has made three …

This Frontiers paper develops a synthesis on deliberating smart knowledge politics for urban
transformations, based on a 3-year collaborative research project conducting case studies in …

Smart cities are now an established area of technological development and theoretical
inquiry. Research on smart cities spans from investigations into its technological …

Citizen participation in urban governance has established itself as a paradigm, promising
greater democracy, empowerment, and more cost-effective public service delivery against …

Smart city developments have been subjected to technocratic envisioning and neoliberal
urban developments. However, there have been attempts to reclaim the right to the city …

This paper focuses on the importance of framing and conceiving smart urban initiatives and
schemes in a highly context-sensitive way, and argues that place-based approaches are …

The proliferation of smart technologies, big data, and analytics is being increasingly used to
address urban socio-environmental problems such as climate change mitigation and carbon …