Creating Smart Cities

In cities around the world digital technologies are utilized to manage city services and infrastructures to govern urban life to solve urban issues and to drive local and regional economies. While smart city advocates are keen to promote the benefits of smart urbanism â increased efficiency sustainability resilience competitiveness safety and security â critics point to the negative effects such as the production of technocratic governance the corporatization of urban services technological lock-ins privacy harms and vulnerability to cyberattack. This book through a range of international case studies suggests social political and practical interventions that would enable more equitable and just smart cities reaping the benefits of smart city initiatives while minimizing some of their perils. Included are case studies from Ireland the United States of America Colombia the Netherlands Singapore India and the United Kingdom. These chapters discuss a range of issues including political economy citizenship standards testbedding urban regeneration ethics surveillance privacy and cybersecurity. This book will be of interest to urban policymakers as well as researchers in Regional Studies and Urban Planning. . Language: English