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Urban planning and the knowledge politics of the smart city
| Content Provider | SAGE Publishing |
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| Author | Cook, Matthew Karvonen, Andrew |
| Copyright Year | 2023 |
| Abstract | Smart cities promote computational and data-driven understandings of the built environment and have the potential to reconfigure urban planning and governance practices in profound ways. Smart urbanisation is often presented as a politically neutral and socially beneficial approach to achieve urban sustainability goals but the emphasis on data gathering and algorithmic analysis and decision-making has the tendency to restrict how urban stakeholders know and act upon cities. In this article, we apply Artistotle’s intellectual virtues of techne, episteme and phronesis to critique current practices of smart cities, data-driven urbanism and computational understandings of cities as they relate to urban planning theory and practice. We argue that the rise of smart cities represents a partial return to early- to mid-20th-century positivistic knowledge politics and the reassertion of technical experts as the drivers of urban change. However, we also highlight the recent emergence of citizen-centred smart cities as an opportunity to promote value rationality in urban planning activities. We conclude that there is a need for greater integration of techne, episteme and phronesis in the pursuit of smart cities to ensure that digitalisation does not foreclose on certain ways of knowing cities but instead, provides a foundation to support a progressive knowledge politics of urban development. |
| Related Links | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00420980231177688?download=true |
| ISSN | 00420980 |
| Journal | Urban Studies (USJ) |
| e-ISSN | 1360063X |
| DOI | 10.1177/00420980231177688 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Sage Publications UK |
| Publisher Date | 2023-05-31 |
| Publisher Place | London |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | © Urban Studies Journal Limited 2023 |
| Subject Keyword | 知识政治 智慧城市 技术 knowledge politics phronesis episteme smart cities 理论知识 techne datafication 实践智慧 数据化 |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Urban Studies Environmental Science |
