Deepti Prasad
Biographic Data
| ID | 1448468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deepti Prasad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deepti |
| FAMILY NAME | Prasad |
| SIGNATURE | PRASAD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3126-3930 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Alternative smart urbanism: An intersectional feminist take on learning from the margins
In this paper we build on the existing literature on ‘alternative smart urbanism’ and yet, take a critical lens to inform theory. Informed by 30 interviews with a variety of civic society actors/organisations in India, complemented with policy/document analysis, this paper makes two main contributions. First, it brings empirical evidence of the burgeoning alternative smart city practices from the understudied context of the Global South, providin…
Women in, at the margins, and against the smart cities: Lessons from India
Moving beyond ‘smart’: Uncovering traditional knowledge in informality
In response to a variety of open questions and concerns raised by the set of commentaries on Prasad et al., this response offers clarifications and a way forward about, first, the need to re-conceptualise informality with smart urbanism and, second, the implications of understanding the interrelationship between informality and smart urbanism through traditional knowledge in the broader field of urban studies
Cross examination of smart urbanism and Southern urbanism: A systematic literature review in search of ‘Southern smart urbanism’
This paper systematically reviews the literature on smart urbanism and Southern urbanism to conceptualise smart cities in the Global South. Through a two-stage analysis, the paper highlights the gaps in theorising Southern smart urbanism around three areas – visioning, development, and planning; infrastructure and services; and social and community. Findings argue for the articulation of Southern smart urbanism informed by the Southern urban crit…
The right to the smart city in the Global South: A research agenda
Urban research has increasingly embraced the Global South, as recent critical scholarship continues opening to Southern cities, scholars and ideas generated from the South. Here, we (the authors, two women of the Global South) think strategically about ‘the Southern urban critique’, ‘the right to the city’ and ‘smart cities’– as well as some limitations of doing so. Intrigued by the fast pace of smart city development across the Global South, and…
Smart Cities Mission in the Face of Covid: Scope and Scale of ‘Smart’ Covid Responses in India
COVID has expedited and expanded the already precarious smart city development in India with the multitude of 'smart' COVID responses-broadly known as CovTech-introduced since the early days of the global pandemic. This paper offers an analysis of the scope and scale of smart responses to COVID in the first 20 cities prioritized for smart city implementation-as part of the Smart Cities Mission in India. The analysis unravels the diversity within …
Smart city planning and the challenges of informality in India
Smart city initiatives are mushrooming across the Global South, yet their implications for urban informality – a distinct challenge of planning in the cities of the Global South – remain overlooked. Using the Indian case as a focus and drawing upon empirical studies in three cities of Bhubaneswar, Pune, and Chennai, which are among the first 20 smart cities prioritised for implementation in the Smart Cities Mission, we show how informality challe…
Smart city place-based outcomes in India: Bubble urbanism and socio-spatial fragmentation
Despite the bourgeoning of smart city initiatives across the Global South, their implementation and place-based outcomes remain understudied. This paper presents empirical studies in three Indian cities of Bhubaneswar, Pune and Chennai; three of the first 20 smart cities prioritized for implementation in the Smart Cities Mission. It investigates the place-based outcomes utilized to create smart cities under three categories of mega-, placemaking,…
Multiscalar Smart City Governance in India
What Makes Indian Cities Smart? A Policy Analysis of Smart Cities Mission
The City Under Covid‐19: Podcasting As Digital Methodology
This critical commentary reflects on a rapidly mobilised international podcast project, in which 25 urban scholars from around the world provided audio recordings about their cities during COVID‐19. New digital tools are increasing the speeds, formats and breadth of the research and communication mediums available to researchers. Voice recorders on mobile phones and digital audio editing on laptops allows researchers to collaborate in new ways, a…
Multiscalar Smart City Governance in India
Smart city planning and the challenges of informality in India
Smart city initiatives are mushrooming across the Global South, yet their implications for urban informality – a distinct challenge of planning in the cities of the Global South – remain overlooked. Using the Indian case as a focus and drawing upon empirical studies in three cities of Bhubaneswar, Pune, and Chennai, which are among the first 20 smart cities prioritised for implementation in the Smart Cities Mission, we show how informality challe…
The right to the smart city in the Global South: A research agenda
Urban research has increasingly embraced the Global South, as recent critical scholarship continues opening to Southern cities, scholars and ideas generated from the South. Here, we (the authors, two women of the Global South) think strategically about ‘the Southern urban critique’, ‘the right to the city’ and ‘smart cities’– as well as some limitations of doing so. Intrigued by the fast pace of smart city development across the Global South, and…
The City Under Covid‐19: Podcasting As Digital Methodology
This critical commentary reflects on a rapidly mobilised international podcast project, in which 25 urban scholars from around the world provided audio recordings about their cities during COVID‐19. New digital tools are increasing the speeds, formats and breadth of the research and communication mediums available to researchers. Voice recorders on mobile phones and digital audio editing on laptops allows researchers to collaborate in new ways, a…
Cross examination of smart urbanism and Southern urbanism: A systematic literature review in search of ‘Southern smart urbanism’
This paper systematically reviews the literature on smart urbanism and Southern urbanism to conceptualise smart cities in the Global South. Through a two-stage analysis, the paper highlights the gaps in theorising Southern smart urbanism around three areas – visioning, development, and planning; infrastructure and services; and social and community. Findings argue for the articulation of Southern smart urbanism informed by the Southern urban crit…
Moving beyond ‘smart’: Uncovering traditional knowledge in informality
In response to a variety of open questions and concerns raised by the set of commentaries on Prasad et al., this response offers clarifications and a way forward about, first, the need to re-conceptualise informality with smart urbanism and, second, the implications of understanding the interrelationship between informality and smart urbanism through traditional knowledge in the broader field of urban studies
What Makes Indian Cities Smart? A Policy Analysis of Smart Cities Mission
The City Under Covid‐19: Podcasting As Digital Methodology
This critical commentary reflects on a rapidly mobilised international podcast project, in which 25 urban scholars from around the world provided audio recordings about their cities during COVID‐19. New digital tools are increasing the speeds, formats and breadth of the research and communication mediums available to researchers. Voice recorders on mobile phones and digital audio editing on laptops allows researchers to collaborate in new ways, a…
Multiscalar Smart City Governance in India
Smart city place-based outcomes in India: Bubble urbanism and socio-spatial fragmentation
Despite the bourgeoning of smart city initiatives across the Global South, their implementation and place-based outcomes remain understudied. This paper presents empirical studies in three Indian cities of Bhubaneswar, Pune and Chennai; three of the first 20 smart cities prioritized for implementation in the Smart Cities Mission. It investigates the place-based outcomes utilized to create smart cities under three categories of mega-, placemaking,…
Smart Cities Mission in the Face of Covid: Scope and Scale of ‘Smart’ Covid Responses in India
COVID has expedited and expanded the already precarious smart city development in India with the multitude of 'smart' COVID responses-broadly known as CovTech-introduced since the early days of the global pandemic. This paper offers an analysis of the scope and scale of smart responses to COVID in the first 20 cities prioritized for smart city implementation-as part of the Smart Cities Mission in India. The analysis unravels the diversity within …
Smart city planning and the challenges of informality in India
Smart city initiatives are mushrooming across the Global South, yet their implications for urban informality – a distinct challenge of planning in the cities of the Global South – remain overlooked. Using the Indian case as a focus and drawing upon empirical studies in three cities of Bhubaneswar, Pune, and Chennai, which are among the first 20 smart cities prioritised for implementation in the Smart Cities Mission, we show how informality challe…
Moving beyond ‘smart’: Uncovering traditional knowledge in informality
In response to a variety of open questions and concerns raised by the set of commentaries on Prasad et al., this response offers clarifications and a way forward about, first, the need to re-conceptualise informality with smart urbanism and, second, the implications of understanding the interrelationship between informality and smart urbanism through traditional knowledge in the broader field of urban studies
Cross examination of smart urbanism and Southern urbanism: A systematic literature review in search of ‘Southern smart urbanism’
This paper systematically reviews the literature on smart urbanism and Southern urbanism to conceptualise smart cities in the Global South. Through a two-stage analysis, the paper highlights the gaps in theorising Southern smart urbanism around three areas – visioning, development, and planning; infrastructure and services; and social and community. Findings argue for the articulation of Southern smart urbanism informed by the Southern urban crit…
The right to the smart city in the Global South: A research agenda
Urban research has increasingly embraced the Global South, as recent critical scholarship continues opening to Southern cities, scholars and ideas generated from the South. Here, we (the authors, two women of the Global South) think strategically about ‘the Southern urban critique’, ‘the right to the city’ and ‘smart cities’– as well as some limitations of doing so. Intrigued by the fast pace of smart city development across the Global South, and…
Alternative smart urbanism: An intersectional feminist take on learning from the margins
In this paper we build on the existing literature on ‘alternative smart urbanism’ and yet, take a critical lens to inform theory. Informed by 30 interviews with a variety of civic society actors/organisations in India, complemented with policy/document analysis, this paper makes two main contributions. First, it brings empirical evidence of the burgeoning alternative smart city practices from the understudied context of the Global South, providin…
Women in, at the margins, and against the smart cities: Lessons from India
Smart Cities and Technologies (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Smart city (7 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (6 works) · Computer security (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Internet of Things (4 works) · Regional science (4 works)