Smart Cities
Contradictions Yet Opportunities for a Better Urban World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12979121 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cinthia de Almeida Fagundes (Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), corresponding author), Lindon Fonseca Matias (0000-0002-0098-771X, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 19-27 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1942-7786 • E-ISSN: 2633-674X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/194277861801100102 |
| OpenAlex | W2802262534 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article presents a critical analysis of the “smart city” concept. The argument focuses on contradictions in the symbols of urban prosperity, unraveling of the social agents involved and their interests, and an investigation of the processes resulting from investments in technology and innovation selectively performed in a territory. We propose three approaches for understanding the smart city project, in the light of analytical resources provided by the Brazilian geographer Milton Santos. Through these analyses we point to the strengths and weaknesses of the concept
Argument (complex analysis · Computer security · Data science · Economic geography · Epistemology · Geographer · Geography · Internet of Things · Management science · Political science · Prosperity · Regional science · Smart city · Sociology · Strengths and weaknesses · Computer Science · Engineering · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development · Law · Philosophy · Smart Cities and Technologies
Splintering Urbanism
From the Ground Up
Critical interventions into the corporate smart city
Making sense of smart cities
Cities for people, not for profit
Neoliberalism and the urban condition
Smart contradictions
Metropolitan and Fiscal Policy
Grappling with Smart City Politics in an Era of Market Triumphalism
Is there anybody out there? The place and role of citizens in tomorrow’s smart cities
What is critical urban theory
Smartmentality
Will the real smart city please stand up
New urban utopias of postcolonial India
Smart cities as corporate storytelling
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |