Examining the Smart City Generational Model
Conceptualizations, Implementations, and Infrastructure Canada's Smart City Challenge
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12438596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Austin Zwick (0000-0003-3727-055X, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA, corresponding author), Zachary Spicer (0000-0002-6441-7919, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1229-1253 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Affairs Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/10780874231222243 |
| OpenAlex | W4390410470 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 49 |
Cohen's Smart City Generational model has been the basis of understanding for the evolution of the Smart Cities movement. However, how does this model align with practitioners’ conceptualization of the term? Our research focuses on Infrastructure Canada's Smart City Challenge (SCC). Through 14 primary interviews and 20 finalist applications, this research reveals that practitioners overwhelmingly understand Smart City building as a government-driven, data-centric endeavor (Smart City 2.0), as opposed to being about vendor transactions (Smart City 1.0), resident engagement (Smart City 3.0), or community co-creation (Smart City 4.0), where the specific technology is of secondary importance to project objectives. We conclude that, rather than moving through distinct generations, the smart cities movement should be understood as a gradual process of municipal public administration modernization as local governments are becoming increasingly savvy and experienced about contracting with technology firms to address urban problems
Business · Computer security · Conceptualization · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics · Implementation · Internet of Things · Modernization theory · Political science · Public relations · Smart city · Sociology · Vendor · Computer Science · E-Government and Public Services · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development · Public Administration · Smart Cities and Technologies · Marketing
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Smart and Digital City
Searching for Smart City definition
From public service-dominant logic to public service logic
Understanding Smart Cities
Smart cities of the future
The potential impacts of digital technologies on co-production and co-creation
Conceptualizing smart city with dimensions of technology, people, and institutions
Co-Production and the Co-Creation of Value in Public Services
The ethics of smart cities and urban science
The smart city and its publics
The Smart City as Global Discourse
Smart Cities
Smart Cities
Thinking about smart cities
Making sense of smart cities
Actually existing smart citizens
The real-time city? Big data and smart urbanism
Current trends in Smart City initiatives
Provincialising smart urbanism in Taipei
The frontier of digital opportunity
Competitive urbanism and the limits to smart city innovation
Data-driven governance, smart urbanism and risk-class inequalities
Is there anybody out there? The place and role of citizens in tomorrow’s smart cities
Infrastructure, smart cities and the knowledge economy
Canadian smart cities
Public engagement in smart city development
Programming Environments
Will the real smart city please stand up
Smart cities as corporate storytelling
The value of Big Data in government
Crowd-sourcing the smart city
Variegated neoliberalization
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |