Taylor Buck, N. and White, A. (2015) Competitive urbanism and the limits to smart city innovation: the UK Future Cities initiative. Urban Studies. ISSN 1360-063X
Abstract
The technological vision of smart urbanism has been promoted as a silver bullet for urban problems and a major market opportunity. The search is on for firms and governments to find effective and transferable demonstrations of advanced urban technology. This paper examines initiatives by the UK national government to facilitate urban technological innovation through a range of strategies, particularly the TSB Future Cities Demonstrator Competition. This case study is used to explore opportunities and tensions in the practical realisation of the smart city imaginary. Tensions are shown to be partly about the conjectural nature of the smart city debate., Attention is also drawn to weakened capacity of urban governments to control their infrastructural destiny and also constraints on the ability of the public and private sectors to innovate. The paper contributes to smart city debates by providing further evidence of the difficulties in substantiating the smart city imaginary
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Urban Studies Journal Limited 2015. Available under the CC-BY-NC licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) |
Keywords: | Smart cities; innovation; capacity; competition; neoliberal urbanism; UK |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Urban Studies & Planning (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 30 Jun 2015 10:05 |
Last Modified: | 13 Nov 2016 16:07 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098015597162 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0042098015597162 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:87525 |