Fractured smart cities
Missing links in India’s smart city mission
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21246867 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Uttam Singh (0000-0001-7955-2614, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, corresponding author), P Upadhyay (0000-0001-9948-0494, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1790-1805 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2399-8083 • E-ISSN: 2399-8091 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/23998083221144321 |
| OpenAlex | W4313213386 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 35 |
The postscripts of smart cities have been written before its prelude. Inserting smart technologies in infrastructure to improve urban environments, smart cities emphasize data-driven approaches and evidence-based planning. While it asks for production of new vocabularies, new ways of thinking, and proposes new methodologies, smart cities have trivialized baseline surveys. The insignificance to baseline survey hides the existing and functioning cities and leads to appropriation of “smart in the box” technologies. The omission of baseline survey fails to revamp planning and governance techniques as well as management and delivery of urban services. India’s Smart City Mission runs through a similar fate. Despite changes in vision and approach towards urban improvement, Smart City Mission suffers from methodological apathy and produces fractured smart cities. In doing so, the paper explores how the idea of normative smart city shrouds urban complexities and heterogeneities and proposes solutions without comprehending the functional and existing cities. Drawing on cases of urban water and solid waste management in Smart City Dharamshala, this paper discusses how fissures in normative and functional smart cities are continually produced through broken, incomplete, and erroneous data that, ultimately, fails in creating robust and resilient cities
Appropriation · Architectural engineering · Business · Civil engineering · Computer security · Economic growth · Environmental planning · Geography · Internet of Things · Normative · Political science · Smart city · Urban planning · Urbanity · Urbanization · Computer Science · Engineering · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis · Law · Smart Cities and Technologies · Smart Parking Systems Research
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Smart cities of the future
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Smart Cities
Smart Cities in Europe
Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions
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Data-driven smart eco-cities and sustainable integrated districts
Smart cities in the innovation age
Smart City strategies and new urban development policies in the Polish context
Building a science of cities
Developing a critical understanding of smart urbanism
Roadmaps to utopia
How are citizens involved in smart cities? Analysing citizen participation in Japanese ``Smart Communities
New urban utopias of postcolonial India
Speculative futures
Water Sustainability
The Anthropology of Water
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |