Reframing Reimaging Remarking Smart City
The author mentions the Promises and Perils in the process of smart city. One of them are: “ Will create a smart economy by fostering entrepreneurship, innovation, productivity, competiveness, and inward investment” and “Promotes a strong emphasis on technical solutions and overly promotes top-down technocratic forms of governance, rather than political/social solutions and citizen-centred deliberative democracy”. After reading all the articles, I think the top – down is not against the democracy at all. It is just part of process. The totally democracy like bottom-up will not exist without top-down. But top- down will survived by it own. The question or fear is not to pause the develop of top-down system but engage the bottom-up system more. Then it goes back to the chapter: how can we engage the process of building the smart city. The development of multi-interface should be important component. Then another question emerges: what will be the benefit of citizen whom is engaging in the process, the sense of ownership?
Owning The City
One question before reading the article: what is the ownership in term of the smart city, and who is the owner and what did he/she/us own? The ownership is broad topic. In the aspect of smart city or big date, I do not think we as individual own anything, just because it is such big scale. Individual matters so little. We can claim we as group of user/ citizen owns our date. But what can we use it for? Research? Analysis? Development? I do not think the big data effect at all for our individual. The function of big data exists when it is processed. The person who process it, may claim he own it. But we are the generator of the date. From the base, we have the ownership. Just like the article I read before: Death of Authorship. The end of authorship is beginning of art. Could the death of ownership simulate a new page of smart city? We are no longer talking being the citizen of smart city but we are the smart city.
In the part of “ Recounting the role of urban tech: From smart city to social city”, author talks about the mobile device will allow the user to create the highly personalized image for their city. I just keep think the video that is post of Facebook. Even it is kind not related. But somehow the Facebook becoming a tool to review another city/ state for me. Maybe not only Facebook, but all other social media. Anyone which allow user to up load photos is kind creating a small file of city/ people. But not all image are nice, should we have a system to eliminate the “bad” one? Then who is doing that? Should we have a more “smart” upload system. Will this system reduce the participation of citizen?