This article makes three related arguments. First, that although many definitions of the smart
city have been proposed, corporate promoters say a smart city uses information technology …

Despite the ongoing discussion of the recent years, there is no agreed definition of a 'smart
city', while strategic planning in this field is still largely unexplored. Inspired by this, the …

The future of universal access is very much determined by considerations that reflect also
the changes at the global level. One of the key changes is the shift towards an Urban Age. In …

The United Nations declared in 2007 that,'For the first time in history the urban population
will equal the rural population of the world'. Since then the march of urbanization has been …

'Smart'is becoming a defining buzzword of contemporary cities.'Smart urbanism'—the
interweaving of information, surveillance, control and data acquisition technologies with …

As more cities become 'smart', we are beginning to see the political and epistemological
contradictions of urban 'sentience'writ large in steel and silicon. Underlying all the …

Despite several calls in this journal of debating the rapid growth of the literature on “smart
cities”, such a debate has in large been absent. Smart cities are often un-critically launched …

The interplay between smart urban technologies and city development is a relatively
uncharted territory. Technology and the City aims to fill that gap, exploring the growing …