de Hoop, E., van Oers, L., Becker, S. et al. (4 more authors) (2019) Smart as a global vision? Exploring smart in local district development projects. Architecture and Culture, 7 (3). pp. 437-455. ISSN 2050-7828
Abstract
This article studies local enactments of “smart” in and through visions of six smart district development projects. We show that smart cities’ framings of the future are inevitably diverse, emerging from local assemblages consisting of a wide array of heterogeneous elements that translate global imaginaries of the smart city to meet local specificities, needs and agendas. We demonstrate that visions may describe the process of district planning and design, the materiality of the envisioned district and the governance of the district; and that smart visions may play three distinct roles – they may act as mobilizers, instrumentally (i.e. as tools to achieve specific sociotechnical goals) and to exclude alternatives. Knowledge forms a key constituent of smart visions, and acts to include some while excluding others. We therefore suggest that further research should focus on the political and controversial construction and use of knowledge in visioning processes.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 The Authors. Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
Keywords: | smart; visions; local enactment; performativity; knowledge politics; urban planning |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Sheffield Urban Institute |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ESRC ES/N018907/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 12 Nov 2019 11:20 |
Last Modified: | 23 May 2024 11:23 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/20507828.2019.1637067 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:153367 |