1 Owning the city: New media and citizen engagement in Urban design
When we facing the issues about turning Smart City into Social cities, such like social equity and environmental sustainability and adequate water. Those issues could solve easily by the smart city and other issues such like perceived decline of publicness and aging population. Those issues as it said are not single party issues, they are collective issues that involve multiple fiction. What if those problem are remaining by ages and social change. Those issues could be facing city transition and city decline, which could not change by smart city and how to deal with them ?
Like it said the ownership relationship between citizens and city. Which citizen could get involved decided where the place to build and how the land will be used. This could be happened in a small population region. With massive population to involve the original intention could be failed. Populism some time could destroy a city without code or guide line. How could we select the people who can involve and how far citizens could involve the process, and what is the guide line of this involvement?
2 Rethinking, Reimagining and Remaking Smart cities
While we consider what smart city we would like to live in, it has several viewing angle, like compare with the promises and perils we could choice which technology we could us and apply best to us in our smart city. the writer said the means is post- justified by ends, rather than the ends shaping the means. Is that also means that we should choice and build our smart city we want not supposed be fit with the smart city as it data collector?
The process of smart city evolve is required stakeholder and working relationship how do we decided the principles? And how could principles balance the stakeholder and the public? Will this be practical? Or just ideological imagine?