An urban ecology critique on the “Smart City” model

J Colding, S Barthel - Journal of cleaner production, 2017 - Elsevier
… and gaps in the booming literature on Smart Cities; concerns that we think … ecology lens,
we provide some reflections that need to forgo any wider-scale implementation of the Smart City

Towards a critique of cybernetic urbanism: The smart city and the society of control

M Krivý - Planning Theory, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
… The first part of this article reviews current critiques of this notion. Scholars present three …
the smart city: that it is incompatible with an informal character of the city, that it subjects the city

Smarter greener cities through a social-ecological-technological systems approach

A Branny, MS Møller, S Korpilo, T McPhearson… - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
… (ethical, governmental) and ecological concerns that limit the progress towards … ‘smart
city’ development and urban sustainability. We use systems thinking to position the ‘smart city’ …

From smart cities to wise cities: ecological wisdom as a basis for sustainable urban development

RF Young, K Lieberknecht - Journal of Environmental Planning …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
… development will require bold new approaches in city and regional planning. In this article,
we contrast two emerging strategies: smart cities (SC) and ecological wisdom (EW), examine …

The right to the sustainable smart city

S Heitlinger, N Bryan-Kinns, R Comber - … of the 2019 CHI Conference on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
… that have already been critiqued within HCI [8,71], eco-cities are subject to particular
types of breakdown, because they are unable to deal with the complexities of real, messy …

[HTML][HTML] Applying a systems perspective on the notion of the smart city

J Colding, M Wallhagen, P Sörqvist, L Marcus… - Smart Cities, 2020 - mdpi.com
cities. During the Habitat III conference on Urban Sustainability in 2016, the smart city notion
… As an interdisciplinary group of researchers in environmental psychology, urban ecology, …

The Smart City and other ICT-led techno-imaginaries: Any room for dialogue with Degrowth?

H March - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018 - Elsevier
… hegemonic corporate notions of the Smart City and cognate concepts built upon entrenched
promises of capitalist technological solutionism, ecological modernization and depoliticized …

Digital urban nature: probing a void in the smart city discourse

T Moss, F Voigt, S Becker - City, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
… The absence of nature in most smart city strategies, we argue, is not due to a lack of examples
of urban nature … Although the city is internationally renowned for urban ecology, its Smart

Exposing smart cities and eco-cities: Frankenstein urbanism and the sustainability challenges of the experimental city

F Cugurullo - Environment and Planning A: Economy and …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
… , the smart city and the eco-cityCity, examples of a smart-city agenda and an eco-city
project respectively, this paper questions the sustainability of so-called smart cities and eco-cities, …

Programming environments: Environmentality and citizen sensing in the smart city

J Gabrys - Environment and planning D: Society and space, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
… of environmentality in the context of the CSC smart-city design proposal, I advance an … of
smart and sustainable cities. This reversioning of environmentality through the smart city recasts …