Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
9-2020
Abstract
In this article, we survey a growing body of literature within geography and other intersecting fields that trains attention on what inclusive smart cities are, or what they could be. In doing so, we build on debates around smart citizens, smart public participation, and grassroots and bottom-up smart cities that are concerned with making smart cities more inclusive. The growing critical scholarship on such dis- courses, however, alerts us to the knowledge politics that are involved in, and the urban inequalities that are deeply rooted within, the urban. Technological interventions con- tribute to these politics and inequalities in various ways. Accordingly, we discuss limitations of the current discourses around inclusive smart cities and suggest a need for a nuanced definition of ‘inclusiveness’. We also discuss the necessity to further engage with critical data studies in order to ‘know’ what we are critiquing.
Keywords
smart cities, inclusive smart cities, bottom-up smart cities, just smart cities, smart citizenship, urban, inequalities
Discipline
Geography | Urban Studies | Urban Studies and Planning
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
Geography Compass
Volume
14
Issue
9
First Page
1
Last Page
12
ISSN
1749-8198
Identifier
10.1111/gec3.12504
Publisher
Wiley: 24 months
Citation
LEE, Jane Yeonjae, WOODS, Orlando, & KONG, Lily.(2020). Towards more inclusive smart cities: Reconciling the divergent logics of data and discourse at the margins. Geography Compass, 14(9), 1-12.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3201
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12504