What is it about?
We focus on the over-reliance on technology in smart cities' visions and agendas to provide insights into other aspects that are impacted. By exploring four overlooked areas that have an impact on the actual experience i the city, we notice the overall performance of the so-called smart city is negatively affected by the mere focus on developing technical aspects of it.
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Why is it important?
Improving the situation on the ground required interrogating the thinking and performance of trends like smart cities to ultimately reach a deeper understanding of spatial aspects and affective factors that impact smart urbanism. This helps enable a longer-term sustainability approach in architecture and urban planning.
Perspectives
Providing an argument that uses mixed data was essential to make a case for the need to suggest a different meaning for what `Smart Cities` could truly be. Visions of smart cities have been claiming goals such as better livability in the smart city without stating how or what exactly could be improved and to what extent it is realised on the ground. I was happy to have achieved this by publishing on areas that need more attention and the impact of ignoring them on the overall performance of the city.
Faten Hatem
University of the West of England
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This page is a summary of: Smart in city performance: More to practical life than hardware and software, IET Smart Cities, November 2022, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET),
DOI: 10.1049/smc2.12045.
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