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Zusatztext 'This collection of essays is destined to become a key reference point in debates about smart cities. The contributors offer a rich series of theoretically informed case studies that critically examine the discourses! infrastructures and practices that constitute "smart"; together they significantly advance our understanding of the histories and geographies of smart cities as well as the diversities and uncertainties of their governance! economics! sustainability and sociality.'Gillian Rose! Professor of Cultural Geography at The Open University! UK! and Fellow of the British Academy'Smart Urbanism' is a major reference point in key debates about smart urban governance. The rich and theoretically informed case studies on the Global North and South as well make the book a must-read for graduate students and early career researchers in urban studies.László Cseke1! Hungarian Geographical Bulletin 65! 2016 Informationen zum Autor Simon Marvin is Professor and Director of the Urban Institute at Sheffield University. Andrés Luque-Ayala is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography at Durham University. Colin McFarlane is a Reader in the Department of Geography, Durham University. Klappentext Smart Urbanism (SU) - the rebuilding of cities through the integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods, networked infrastructures and people - is being represented as a unique emerging 'solution' to the majority of problems faced by cities today. Zusammenfassung Smart Urbanism (SU) – the rebuilding of cities through the integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods, networked infrastructures and people – is being represented as a unique emerging ‘solution’ to the majority of problems faced by cities today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Andrés Luque-Ayala, Colin McFarlane and Simon Marvin Smart cities and the politics of urban data Rob Kitchin, Tracey Lauriault and Gavin McArdle IBM and the visual formation of smart cities Donald McNeill The smart entrepreneurial city: Dholera and a 100 other utopias in India Ayona Datta Getting smart about smart cities in Cape Town: Beyond the rhetoric Nancy Odendaal Programming environments: Environmentality and citizen sensing in the smart city Jennifer Gabrys Smart-city initiatives and the Foucauldian logics of governing through code Francisco Klauser and Ola Söderström Geographies of smart urban power Gareth Powells, Harriet Bulkeley and Anthony McLean Test-Bed as urban epistemology Nerea Calvillo, Orit Halpern, Jesse LeCavalier and Wolfgang Pietsch Beyond the corporate smart city?: Glimpses of other possibilities of smartness Robert G. Hollands Conclusions Colin McFarlane Andrés Luque-Ayala and Simon Marvin ...
