Crisis, City and Technology: a Smart Solution?

Authors

  • Hug March
  • Ramón Ribera-Fumaz
  • Pep Vivas i Elias

Keywords:

Smart city, urban political economy, urban governance, information and communications technology

Abstract

In a context of austerity and economic recession, there are emerging new strategies that
aim at rethinking the city through a technologically mediated urbanism. Both Smart City strategies
and the alternatives proposed by the new citizen’s coalitions in Spain agree on the transformative
role that information and communication technologies (ICT) can have in implementing new city
models. However, we have detected the lack of studies exploring critically some of its implications.
This article examines these implications through the deployment of the Smart city concept in Spain
in a context of imposed austerity. From a critical reading of this concept, the article discusses about
the technology-city dichotomy to debate how the 21st century city should be transformed and
managed beyond merely technical questions (sensorization, apps, technological platforms, etc.).

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Published

2016-03-24

How to Cite

March, H., Ribera-Fumaz, R., & Vivas i Elias, P. (2016). Crisis, City and Technology: a Smart Solution?. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, 48(187), 239–248. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/76477

Issue

Vol. XLVIII, núm. 187 (2016)

Section

Articles

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Copyright (c) 2016 Hug March, Ramón Ribera-Fumaz, Pep Vivas i Elias

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