What Is a City that It Would Be ‘Smart
The smart city vision, has one overriding motivation: efficiency.
Q) Who defines what is smart? Is efficiency a synonym for smartness? Are citizens involved in constructing the definition of smartness or these ideas sourced from influential entities and governance with the backdrop of profit- making treating cities as a canvas for corporate exchanges?
Active citizens are knitting together their own smart city, albeit not one envisaged by the systems integrators and technology corporations.
Q) How sustainable are these smart citizen platforms? What impact do the active participation for constructing a smart city create and how does it survive? What could be some possible frameworks that can strengthen these initiatives and what could be possible challenges?
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Urbanization and Ubiquity,” Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
Today, a new group of companies have taken GM’s spot in the driver’s seat and are beginning to steer us toward a new utopia, delivered not by road networks but by digital networks.
Q) What would be cost that this new utopian vision comes along with? What would be some un-speculated modifications in the urban spaces, this new infrastructure of digital networks demand?