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Review of the book: Grazia Concilio and Francesca Rizzo, Human smart cities – Rethinking the interplay between design and planning. Urban and landscape perspectives, Springer: Cham, Switzerland, 2016; 255 pp. ISBN 978-3-319-33022-8, »86.00 (hardcover)
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I began this review by typing ‘smart city’ into a popular search engine. I received an impressive number of approximately 32 million entry results, some of which were definitions, while others were links to urban regions that are currently developing the multiple vectors that urban smartness entails. The ‘smart city’ is to many spatial planners and place managers yet another catchphrase that has outlived its usefulness.
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I acknowledge that there is a strong need to keep researching the real impacts of the smart city concept in cities as a means for supporting urban transformation. I agree with the ‘humanitarian’ outlook postulated in this book; however, empirical evidence is required to confront the theoretical ideals of the smart city and creative city-making with its impacts for city-dwellers at the ground-level.
Eduardo Henrique da Silva Oliveira
Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel
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This page is a summary of: Grazia Concilio and Francesca Rizzo, Human smart cities – Rethinking the interplay between design and planning. Urban and landscape perspectivesConcilioGrazia and RizzoFrancesca, Human smart cities – Rethinking the interplay between design and planning..., Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science, February 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2399808317691378.
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