What Is a City that It Would Be ‘Smart’?
As mentioned by Haque, the model smart cities tend to be justified by the connectivity, readability and profitability of a model of city developed in a top-down relation with the inhabitants. In this sense, looking forward to create a different relation to the development of the city, Which would be the model of a city in which technologies and further developments of the city are part of a more organic growing of the community as whole? which could be the models of participation for such city? and how could the efforts for innovation developed in the bottom can reach a more broad social level?
On the smart city; Or, a ‘manifesto’ for smart citizens instead
In his text, Hill uses Social Networks and Crowd-source platforms as models for both, explaining on-line social sociability, and the possibilities opened by a networked city in terms of the way we can create new models of governance in the smart city. In this sense, which could be other models of social interaction in the network that could be also used for thinking on our relation with the community, and our interaction with authorities? The forum, the open-communities or other forms of on-line interaction could be also taken in account for thinking about new models of governance?
Urbanization and Ubiquity
In his text, Townsend emphasizes on the role that historically the technologies have had on the development of the city, and in the way that the common live is shaped by this developments. He mentions how most of the decisions have happened as the result of the lobbying of companies and the decisions of certain urbanists to impose a certain model of the cities introducing such technologies in a way that has been more harmful than beneficial, creating the need for introducing new technologies to solve the problems of past decisions. In this sense, how can we seek to develop different relations to technologies that allow citizens to have a more active role in the development of the city? At the same, time, how can technologies be introduced in the city in an organic way that fosters a dialogical model of the city?