Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

By A. Townsend. 2013

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The governance of smart cities: A systematic literature review (2018, background): “2012), to “address social, economic and environmental problems” (Townsend, 2013), involving “multi-actor, multi-sector and multi-level perspectives” (Paskaleva, 2009).”
The real-time city? Big data and smart urbanism (2013, methodology): “In particular, it has the potential to create buggy, brittle and exposed city services and spaces that are prone to viruses, glitches, crashes, and security hacks that can cause havoc (Kitchin and Dodge 2011; Townsend 2013).”
Smart destinations and the evolution of ICTs: a new scenario for destination management? (2019, background): “…when the concept of the smart city is far from apolitical and non-ideological (Greenfield, 2013; Kitchin, 2014; March & Ribera-Fumaz, 2014; Townsend, 2013; Vanolo, 2014) Since its inception in the urban environment, the smart approach has been subsequently applied to tourism destination…”
The Smart City as Global Discourse: Storylines and Critical Junctures across 27 Cities (2019, background): “…corporatization 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.,…”
Security, Privacy and Risks Within Smart Cities: Literature Review and Development of a Smart City Interaction Framework (2020, methodology): “and digital systems, each distinctly highly complex with contingent systems, then binding them together to create environments inherently prone to security vulnerabilities, is a significant challenge and risk to operational capability (Kitchin and Dodge 2011; Townsend 2013).”
Critical interventions into the corporate smart city (2015, background): “It is counter-intuitive to argue against the idea of a smart city (though for recent critiques see de Lange and de Waal, 2013; Greenfield, 2012; Hemment and Townsend, 2013; Townsend, 2013; Vanolo, 2013; and for an early critique see Hollands, 2008).”
Smart Cities After Covid-19: Ten Narratives (2020, neutral): “…et al. 2019; Dameri, Rosenthal-Sabroux 2014; Deakin 2013; Deakin, Al Waer 2012; Greenfield 2013; IBM 2012; IzR 2017; Keese 2014; Maak 2020; Komninos 2014; Kunzmann 2014; Landry 2016; Morozov 2013; Nassehi 2019; Peris- Ortiz, Bennett, Yábar 2016; Stimmel 2015; Townsend 2013; Yigitcanlar 2016.”
Open Civic Data: Of the People, For the People, By the People (2014, background): “With more than 60% of the world population living in an urban environment by 2050, smarter cities [2] have become a necessity.”
Innovation labs in the public sector: what they are and what they do? (2017, background): “In some sense, this can be seen as an attempt to make technology subservient to social change rather than letting the technology be the catalyst of the latter (see also Townsend 2013 on this point).”
Smart Sustainable Cities: Definition and Challenges (2015, background): “Townsend [4] points out two recent changes in global ICT development and uses those to provide a basis—but also a challenge—for cities to become smart.”
New Insights into Rental Housing Markets across the United States: Web Scraping and Analyzing Craigslist Rental Listings (2016, background): “The “smart cities” paradigm promotes harnessing big data for richer understanding, prediction, and planning of cities, though not without controversy (Townsend 2013; Ching and Ferreira 2015; Goodspeed 2015).”
Data-driven geography (2014, neutral): “…by individuals in phones, attached to vehicles, and embedded in infrastructure; remote sensors carried by airborne and satellite platforms; radiofrequency identiﬁcation (RFID) tags attached to objects; and georeferenced social media (Miller 2007, 2010; Sui and Goodchild 2011; Townsend 2013).”