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(D)evolving smartness

Exploring the changing modalities of smart city making in Africa

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ID11670496
AutoresLuke Boyle (0000-0002-9162-5115, Urban Real Estate Research Unit, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, autor de correspondencia), John Harlow (0000-0002-2896-3373, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA), Lauren Withycombe Keeler (0000-0003-2665-139X, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA)
Año2023
Volumen45
Número4
Páginas586-610
Fecha de publicación2023-05-19
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaUrban Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0272-3638 • E-ISSN: 1938-2847
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02723638.2023.2213035
OpenAlexW4377098937
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas51

The paper identifies an under-researched mode of smart city-making in Africa characterized by municipal deployments of ICT-driven innovations. This departs from typical framings that view African smart city development as nationally driven, master planned new city developments. An in-depth analysis of the City of Cape Town’s Digital City Strategy provides insights into the mechanisms and processes grounding smart city concepts in African municipalities. Thus, situating Africa’s municipal ICT-driven strategies in the context of a global discourse of smart urbanism and local (and continental) processes of decentralized governance reform. In Cape Town, these global and local forces converge to drive ICT-inspired urbanism that reinforce market-oriented logics of urban governance, largely at the expense of transformative and contextually sensitive ICT deployments. By highlighting the multi-scalar production of smart cities inspired by global discourse yet subjected to local dynamics, the findings offer insights into the political realities of municipal ICT deployments in Africa

Business · Context (archaeology · Corporate governance · Geography · Global city · Information and Communications Technology · Lifeworld · Political science · Smart city · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Urbanism · Engineering · ICT in Developing Communities · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development · Smart Cities and Technologies · Architecture

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