Critical interventions into the corporate smart city

By R. Hollands. 2015

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Driven by the profit motive of global high-technology companies, in collusion with the trend towards city governance being wedded to a competitive form of ‘urban entrepreneurialism’, has left little room for ordinary people to participate in the smart city. The article seeks to make a two-fold critical intervention into the dominance of this corporate smart city model. It does this by first looking at how we currently understand the smart city and critiques the growing trend towards corporate and entrepreneurial governance versions. A second form of intervention concerns considering smartness from different perspectives emanating from small-scale and fledgling examples of participatory and citizen-based types of smart initiatives.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Media Technology

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Smart utopia VS smart reality: Learning by experience from 10 smart city cases (2017, background): “…of the smart city's overestimated potential or extremely futuristic so-called “smart utopia” can be documented (Allwinkle & Cruickshank, 2011; Hollands, 2015; Hollands, 2008; Söderström, Paasche, & Klauser, 2014; Watson, 2013; Yigitcanlar & Lee, 2014); and despite an enormous spending on…”
Tourists’ Experiences with Smart Tourism Technology at Smart Destinations and Their Behavior Intentions (2019, background): “The concept of smartness originates in the 1990s and has since been drawing attention from people (Hollands 2008, 2015).”
The role of big data in smart city (2016, background): “Given that a smart city needs the integration of different components, acquiring them may be costly for the government because of the scarcity in natural and human resources (Hollands, 2015).”
City-as-a-Platform: The Rise of Participatory Innovation Platforms in Finnish Cities (2016, background): “The concept has been broadening for many years, partly due to the severe criticism of smart city-oriented new town projects [154], suggesting that there is a need for a multi-dimensional, collaborative and citizen-oriented conceptualization of smart city.”
Smart cities with big data: Reference models, challenges, and considerations (2018, result): “This is a finding consistent with the people-centered view of smart cities (Hollands, 2015; Stratigea et al., 2015; Vanolo, 2016).”
The Smart City as Global Discourse: Storylines and Critical Junctures across 27 Cities (2019, background): “…of city management and, more broadly, new forms of technocratic governance (e.g., Allwinkle and Cruickshank 2011; Greenfield, 2013; Townsend, 2013; Söderström et al., 2014; Vanolo, 2014; Angelidou, 2015; Calzada and Cobo, 2015; Hollands, 2015; Kitchin, 2015; Przeybilovicz et al., 2018).”
The Role of Smart City Characteristics in the Plans of Fifteen Cities (2017, background): “This aspect of smart cities has been cited repeatedly as a basic ingredient of successful smart city strategies (Bakici, 2012; Evans-Cowley, 2011; González and Rossi, 2012; Greenfield, 2013; Hollands, 2015; Komninos et al., 2013; Paskaleva, 2011; Town-send, 2013).”