The ethics of smart cities and urban science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23322295 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rob Kitchin (0000-0003-4458-7299, Google (United States), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 374 |
| Issue | 2083 |
| Pages | 20160115 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1364-503X • E-ISSN: 1471-2962 |
| Publisher | The Royal Society (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1098/rsta.2016.0115 |
| PMID | 28336794 |
| OpenAlex | W2552464140 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 117 |
| References cited | 34 |
Software-enabled technologies and urban big data have become essential to the functioning of cities. Consequently, urban operational governance and city services are becoming highly responsive to a form of data-driven urbanism that is the key mode of production for smart cities. At the heart of data-driven urbanism is a computational understanding of city systems that reduces urban life to logic and calculative rules and procedures, which is underpinned by an instrumental rationality and realist epistemology. This rationality and epistemology are informed by and sustains urban science and urban informatics, which seek to make cities more knowable and controllable. This paper examines the forms, practices and ethics of smart cities and urban science, paying particular attention to: instrumental rationality and realist epistemology; privacy, datafication, dataveillance and geosurveillance; and data uses, such as social sorting and anticipatory governance. It argues that smart city initiatives and urban science need to be re-cast in three ways: a re-orientation in how cities are conceived; a reconfiguring of the underlying epistemology to openly recognize the contingent and relational nature of urban systems, processes and science; and the adoption of ethical principles designed to realize benefits of smart cities and urban science while reducing pernicious effects. This article is part of the themed issue ‘The ethical impact of data science’.
Big data · Computer security · Corporate governance · Economics · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Management · Philosophy of science · Political science · Politics · Rationality · Smart city · Sociology · Technocracy · Urban planning · Urbanism · Architecture · Computer Science · Engineering · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis · Law · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection · Smart Cities and Technologies · Urban Studies
State-of-the-art review of resilient smart cities
Citizen-centered data governance in the smart city
The underlying components of data-driven smart sustainable cities of the future
Mapping Platform Urbanism
Da forma urbana à cidade como informação
Mobilidade, participação e dados
Participatory design of a smart forest in the Brazilian Amazon using smartphones, algorithms, and ethnographic methods
Natural outbreaks and bioterrorism
Hackers cívicos
Making Smart Things Strange Again
Monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals in cities
The streetlights are watching you
Interactive tangible planning support systems and politics of public participation
Compact urbanism and the synergic potential of its integration with data-driven smart urbanism
To what extent are Dutch citizens' interests and rights protected by ethical guidelines for smart cities
The future of the future city? The new urban sciences and a Peak Urban interdisciplinary disposition
Smart cities, big data and urban policy
Governance mechanism of public-private partnerships for promoting smart city performance
Using composite indicators and city dashboards to promote place-based policy interventions
The relationship between citizen readiness and the intention to continuously use smart city services
The legitimacy gap of algorithmic decision-making in the public sector
Governing disruptive technologies for inclusive development in cities
Guiding visions of corporate smart city innovators
Predicting urban futures
Seoul's Wi-Fi hotspots
Compact city planning and development
Public Spaces in Transition
Umwelt as the foundation of an ethics of smart environments
The role of urban planning in shaping resilient futures
Can Machine Learning Support Planning for Equitable Green Infrastructure? A Perspective on Opportunities, Risks, and Ethical Pathways
Opening the door
Opportunities and Challenges of Geospatial Analysis for Promoting Urban Livability in the Era of Big Data and Machine Learning
Smart Engagement in Small Cities
City Science
Smart cities as a testbed for experimenting with humans? - Applying psychological ethical guidelines to smart city interventions
Mechanic citizenship
What drives the ethical acceptance of deep synthesis applications? A fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis
Smart Urbanism Through Artificial Intelligence (AI)‐Megaprojects
Data-Driven Smart Eco-Cities of the Future
Digital Technology Use and Future Expectations
Citizen repertoires of smart urban safety
An emergent taxonomy of boundary spanning in the smart city context – The case of smart Dublin
Emerging smart city, transport and energy trends in urban settings
A roundtable discussion
Integrated environmental and human observations for smart cities
A scholarly backcasting approach to a novel model for smart sustainable cities of the future
Digital Ageism
Data-driven smart sustainable cities of the future
The Organizational Transformation of Artificial Intelligence in Smart Cities
Smart Eco-City Strategies and Solutions for Sustainability
Urban Geoscience
Integrating AI and Geospatial Technologies for Sustainable Smart City Development
Assessing smart city projects and their implications for public policy in the Global South
Governance of urban data commons as a matter of value redistribution in the smart city
Revisiting positionality and the thesis of situated knowledge
Parasitic platform urbanism in Dhaka and Melbourne
Personal mobility and climate change
Negotiating sustainabilities in applied geography
Towards a co-creative stakeholder engagement in Smart City projects
We Live Here
Examining the Smart City Generational Model
Urban Techno-Politics
Cultivating Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in Digital Government
Unveiling the Ethical Dimension of Urban Digital Twins
Integrating Urban Digital Twin with Cloud-Based Geospatial Dashboard for Coastal Resilience Planning
Commodification, datafication and smart cities
Data-driven smart sustainable urbanism
Being a ‘citizen’ in the smart city
Privacy engineering and the techno-regulatory imaginary
People’s strategies for perceived surveillance in Amsterdam Smart City
Smart urban living in Singapore? Thinking through everyday geographies
The three modes of existence of the pandemic smart city
The governance of smart cities
Urban AI
Contestations in urban mobility
Algorithms and values in justice and security
The future of urban models in the Big Data and AI era
The Metaverse as a virtual form of data-driven smart urbanism
Design for values and the city
Toward a community-driven approach to urban data-driven governance
Urban Digital Twins and metaverses towards city multiplicities
The (In)Security of Smart Cities
A Scientist's Warning on Smart Cities
Urban accessibility and digital transformation
An ethical framework for big data and smart cities
Smart cities and behavioural change
From responsibilization to responsiveness through metrics
Data doubles co-constructing spatial practices
Will vehicle data be shared to address the how, where, and who of traffic accidents
Data-driven smart eco-cities and sustainable integrated districts
Generating a vision for smart sustainable cities of the future
Exploring the Balance between Smartness and Sustainability in Finnish Smart City Initiatives during the 2010s
Governing AI-Enabled Climate-Resilient Housing and Infrastructure Prioritization
Homelessness and privacy
Recoding the city
CCTV oddity
New urban governance
Eco-districts and data-driven smart eco-cities
A large language model-based approach to building the knowledge graph for master plan
Smart cities, the digital divide, and people with disabilities
The New Science of Cities
The Data Revolution
Information technology and dataveillance
Smart cities of the future
Dataveillance and Countervailance
A Taxonomy of Privacy
Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities
Big Data’s End Run around Anonymity and Consent
Unique in the Crowd
Computational Social Science
Locational analysis in human geography
Cities under siege – the new military urbanism
The real-time city? Big data and smart urbanism
Not Just Steering but Weaving
The Politics of Large Numbers
Privacy, reconsidered
Cartographic Rationality and the Politics of Geosurveillance and Security
Social justice and the city
Splintering urbanism
Grasping the Dynamism of Lifeworld
Automation and Cartography
Codes of Life
| Unique citing works | 117 |
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| Citations per year | 13 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 93 |