Unplugging Smart cities

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Dr Calzada argues that the development of the so-called buzzword smart city and its use in planning inner cities are intimately bound to current urban transformations. In an attempt to deconstruct or unplug the buzzword, Part Four shows a wide range of topics order to create not only a critical but also a constructive policy agenda of smartness in cities and regions. The conclusion of Part Four concludes with the necessity to plug stakeholders in by setting up a complex, multi-stakeholder, city–regional urbanity as a way toward real smartness in cities and regions. To plug in, or connect, stakeholders, one should consider the interdependencies among them; the need for democratic mechanisms to manage data; the need to scale up urban solutions to metropolitan and city–regional levels; the intent to provide comparative evidence-based data; and, finally, the tendency to establish not only quantitative but also qualitative rankings and city dashboards that enable adaptability rather than replicability.

Authors: Calzada, I

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Reviewed (other)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd.
• Host title: Smart City Transformations: The Revolution of The 21st Century
• Pages: Chapter 8
• Publication date: 2017-04-25
• ISBN: 9789386349040
• Keywords: smart devolution; city-regions; multi-stakeholders; SBTMR; smart cities; urban transformations