What is it about?
This review explores the gaps in knowledge in smart cities literature. It gives a new perspective on the meaning of Smart and the significance of being aware of how the notion is being used to facilitate certain agendas. The combination of politics, economics and spatial design is also revealed through this literature review while referring to the overlooked potential of having a combination of art, place and technology in city-research and making that is capable of achieving a better green transition.
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Why is it important?
The paper focuses on the problematic approach of having recycled views around the trade-offs in the city and criticism of overreliance on technology without offering a new creative approach to city-making. Therefore, it offers a new perspective and combination of art, place and technology that could engage in debate with various ways of seeing the city progress with a more holistic value-based approach to sustainable planning.
Perspectives
We need creative ways of planning and thinking more than ever, especially giving the global turn to a `Global boiling` instead of Global warming as in the UN Chief`s words. Recycled old-fashioned views and criticism is no longer efficient enough and it makes the case for the need for the combination of art, place and technology that my research introduces to replace the silo working style with an integrated cooperative one.
Faten Hatem
University of the West of England
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This page is a summary of: Making cities smarter for an inclusive green transition towards a long‐term sustainable development: A critical literature review, IET Smart Cities, October 2023, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET),
DOI: 10.1049/smc2.12066.
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