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Date |
2018 |
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Date |
2018-11-01 |
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p1360063X |
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abstract |
Notions of the Smart City are pervasive in urban development discourses. Various frameworks
for the development of smart cities, often conceptualized as roadmaps, make a number
of implicit claims about how smart city projects proceed but the legitimacy of those
claims is unclear. This paper begins to address this gap in knowledge. We explore
the development of a smart transport application, MotionMap, in the context of a £16M
smart city programme taking place in Milton Keynes, UK. We examine how the idealized
smart city narrative was locally inflected, and discuss the differences between the
narrative and the processes and outcomes observed in Milton Keynes. The research shows
that the vision of data-driven efficiency outlined in the roadmaps is not universally
compelling, and that different approaches to the sensing and optimization of urban
flows have potential for empowering or disempowering different actors. Roadmaps tend
to emphasize the importance of delivering quick practical results. However, the benefits
observed in Milton Keynes did not come from quick technical fixes but from a smart
city narrative that reinforced existing city branding, mobilizing a growing network
of actors towards the development of a smart region. Further research is needed to
investigate this and other smart city developments, the significance of different
smart city narratives, and how power relationships are reinforced and constructed
through them. |
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authorList |
authors |
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15 |
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peerReviewed |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/638145 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/638146 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/638147 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/638148 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/638149 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/653143 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/653146 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/653147 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/653148 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/653149 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/653150 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/660018 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/660751 |
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volume |
55 |
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AcademicArticle |
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type |
Article |
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label |
Valdez Juarez, Alan ; Cook, Matthew and Potter, Stephen (2018). Roadmaps to
Utopia: Tales of the Smart City. Urban Studies (Early Access). |
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label |
Valdez Juarez, Alan ; Cook, Matthew and Potter, Stephen (2018). Roadmaps to
Utopia: Tales of the Smart City. Urban Studies, 55(15) pp. 3385–3403. |
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label |
Valdez Juarez, Alan ; Cook, Matthew and Potter, Stephen (2018). Roadmaps to Utopia:
Tales of the Smart City. Urban Studies, 55(15) pp. 3385–3403. |
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Title |
Roadmaps to Utopia: Tales of the Smart City |
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oro |