From smart to rebel city? Worlding, provincialising and the Barcelona Model

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10864027
AutoresGreig Charnock (0000-0003-0625-264X, The University of Manchester, UK, autor de correspondencia), H March (0000-0003-2549-0803, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), Ramon Ribera-Fumaz (0000-0003-3404-6309, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Año2021
Volumen58
Número3
Páginas581-600
Fecha de publicación2021-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaUrban Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0042098019872119
OpenAlexW2979957882
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas50
Referencias citadas42

This article examines the evolution of the ‘Barcelona Model’ of urban transformation through the lenses of worlding and provincialising urbanism. We trace this evolution from an especially dogmatic worlding vision of the smart city, under a centre-right city council, to its radical repurposing under the auspices of a municipal government led, after May 2015, by the citizens’ platform Barcelona en Comú. We pay particular attention to the new council’s objectives to harness digital platform technologies to enhance participative democracy, and its agenda to secure technological sovereignty and digital rights for its citizens. While stressing the progressive intent of these aims, we also acknowledge the challenge of going beyond the repurposing of smart technologies so as to engender new and radical forms of subjectivity among citizens themselves; a necessary basis for any urban revolution

Citizen journalism · Democracy · Economics · Economy · Epistemology · Government (linguistics · Internet of Things · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Repurposing · Right to the city · Smart city · Sociology · Sovereignty · Subjectivity · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Urbanism · Architecture · Engineering · History · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development · Law · Public Administration · Smart Cities and Technologies