Revisiting Smartness in the Smart City

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sage Cammers-Goodwin
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
City Government ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
The Status ◽  
The City ◽  
Knowledge Claims ◽  
Civic Intelligence

This chapter critically examines the intelligence of smart city government, which often ignores experiential and practical knowledge of citizens. The smart city movement’s tunnel-visioned pursuit of technology-driven intelligence distracts from smart citizenship: civic intelligence and knowledge that lives outside the scope of business-friendly tech entrepreneurs. The disenfranchised, although knowledgeable decision makers, are often ignored in the design process, because their values challenge or conflict with the status quo. Sensible actions of the non-valued are actively undermined as aberrant, rather than taken as informed input on how to improve the city for all. The term “smart city” assumes that data-driven innovation is needed because the citizenry is not already smart, while pushing forward with the premise that technical and surveillance-driven solutions are integral to solving “universal” problems that reflect corporate and governmental values. This precludes taking the knowledge claims and actions of citizens seriously.

YOUTH EXPECTATIONS OF SMART CITY LIVING: AN IMPORTANCE- PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF YOUNG RESIDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES OF CITY GOVERNMENT

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-128
Author(s):  
Jason Cohen ◽  
Judy Backhouse ◽  
Omar Ally
Keyword(s):  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
City Government ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
City Management ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The City

Young people are important to cities, bringing skills and energy and contributing to economic activity. New technologies have led to the idea of a smart city as a framework for city management. Smart cities are developed from the top-down through government programmes, but also from the bottom-up by residents as technologies facilitate participation in developing new forms of city services. Young people are uniquely positioned to contribute to bottom-up smart city projects. Few diagnostic tools exist to guide city authorities on how to prioritise city service provision. A starting point is to understand how the youth value city services. This study surveys young people in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, and conducts an importance-performance analysis to identify which city services are well regarded and where the city should focus efforts and resources. The results show that Smart city initiatives that would most increase the satisfaction of youths in Braamfontein  include wireless connectivity, tools to track public transport  and  information  on city events. These  results  identify  city services that are valued by young people, highlighting services that young people could participate in providing. The importance-performance analysis can assist the city to direct effort and scarce resources effectively.

scholarly journals The Interlocking Processes Constraining the Struggle for Sanctuary in the Trump Era: The Case of La Puente, CA

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Gilda L. Ochoa
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
City Council ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
Cautionary Tale ◽  
Community Members ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
The Status ◽  
The City

By 10 January 2017, activists in the predominately Latina/o working class city of La Puente, California had lobbied the council to declare the city a sanctuary supporting immigrants, people of color, Muslims, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities. The same community members urged the school district to declare itself a sanctuary. While community members rejoiced in pushing elected officials to pass these inclusive resolutions, there were multiple roadblocks reducing the potential for more substantive change. Drawing on city council and school board meetings, resolutions and my own involvement in this sanctuary struggle, I focus on a continuum of three overlapping and interlocking manifestations of white supremacist heteronormative patriarchy: neoliberal diversity discourses, institutionalized policies, and a re-emergence of high-profiled white supremacist activities. Together, these dynamics minimized, contained and absorbed community activism and possibilities of change. They reinforced the status quo by maintaining limits on who belongs and sustaining intersecting hierarchies of race, immigration status, gender, and sexuality. This extended case adds to the scant scholarship on the current sanctuary struggles, including among immigration scholars. It also illustrates how the state co-opts and marginalizes movement language, ideas, and people, providing a cautionary tale about the forces that restrict more transformative change.

Faith as Taking the Risk

1968 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wyatt T. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Status ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
The City

“Then Elisha said to those people who were assembled in the main square, in the midst of a terrible famine, with the Syrian army at the gate: ‘In about twenty-four hours you will be able to buy a measure of fine flour for a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel.’ And the captain upon whose arm the king leaned looked at him and spoke in derision: ‘Ha! What's God going to do? Open up a hole in the sky and pour out food upon all of these hungry people?’ And Elisha turned to him and said: ‘You have a big mouth. You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat thereof.’ And there were four lepers sitting at the entering in of the gate of Samaria, and they held a conversation amongst themselves that had to do with what the future might hold for them. And they said one to another: ‘What good is it for us to sit here until we die? If we go into the city, there is a famine there, and we shall die. If we sit here, if we maintain the status quo, if we hold what we've got, we shall die also. Come on, let us go out to meet the Syrian hosts, let's try something that we never tried before, and perhaps we shall be taken prisoners of war, and, if so, at least we'll survive. And if not, what have we got to lose?’” (II Kings 7: 1–20; the “Walker” translation).

scholarly journals A SMART CITY APPLICATION VALUE PROPOSITION REALITY CHECK AND CHALLENGES: THE CASE OF MOBILE APPLICATION FOR LOCAL TAX INFORMATION AND PAYMENT

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-27
Author(s):  
Brilliyanes Sanawiri ◽  
Rosalita Agusti
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
City Government ◽  
Value Proposition ◽  
Reality Check ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
The City ◽  
Paper Address ◽  
Qualitative Dimension

This paper address the problem and challenges of the smart city application in the field of tax service. The smart city application for local tax information and payment or namely the SAMPADE App is an innovative service provided by the city government of Malang, Indonesia. The four elements of value proposition and seven smart city framework dimensions were employed to evaluate the Smart City app of SAMPADE. A qualitative study was used by interviewing users and stakeholders of the mobile application. The study indicate that all four elements of the value proposition were currently perceived useful, however improving the performance and reliability of the apps requires further developments. The main contribution of this paper is the qualitative dimension of the concept of the value proposition and the smart city framework used to evaluate the smart city app. Future challenges and recommendation are also presented in this paper as part of the broader exercise for policymakers in developing the smart city app for local tax information and payment.

Research on Construction of City Road Greening

2012 ◽  
Vol 253-255 ◽  
pp. 800-803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu Bai
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Status ◽  
Improvement Measures ◽  
The City

Combining with the status quo of street greening in XuChang, this article pointed out the problems existing in the city road greening construction, and further discussed the improvement measures, in order to beautify the environment, promote traffic safety.

A Wide-Open Town?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Sueyoshi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Order ◽  
White Women ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Men Of Color ◽  
The Status ◽  
The City

This chapter interrogates San Francisco’s mythical reputation as a town where “anything goes.” Pairings of men of color with white women occurred in the city press without the violent rage that it provoked in nearly every other part of the United States at the time. Homoerotic imagery and writings also proliferated with little to no controversy. While the acceptance of these activities might signal an embrace of the diverse people and lifestyles, it in fact pointed to the opposite. Precisely because of overwhelming and unquestionable dominance of white supremacy and heterosexuality, narratives of interracial mingling and same-sex love that might otherwise challenge the status quo served merely as entertaining anecdotes without any threat to the existing social order.

A City for Smart Technology Transformation

2022 ◽  
pp. 130-150
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
City Government ◽  
City Development ◽  
City Governments ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
The Government ◽  
Smart Technologies ◽  
Technology Transformation ◽  
The City

The main purpose of this chapter is to present how a smart city is governed, managed, and operated. It describes smart city governance and identifies the special relation the government of the city would have with the citizens as well as communities. In addition, governance considerations related to operations are described, including critical city government challenges. The second important topic in this chapter is the City-Citizens Relations highlighting urban growth, needed investments, and role of smart technologies in the city development. In addition, other issues include strategic goals of smart cities, strategic framework for city governments, and financing smart city projects.

Building Sound Foundations for Smart City Government

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Jochen Scholl ◽  
Marlen Jurisch ◽  
Helmut Krcmar ◽  
Margit C. Scholl
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
City Government ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
City Governments ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Institutional Architecture ◽  
The City

City governments around the world have increasingly engaged in “smart city” initiatives. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are at the core of these initiatives. City governments appear to play important roles in making the urban spaces, in which they are embedded, more attractive, more competitive, more livable, and smarter. The authors interviewed City officials in Munich, Germany, and asked for the definitions of “smart city,” which they then compared to Munich's smart city-related program. While the practitioners' definitions differed in part from those in the academic literature, the smart city overhaul program at Munich city government had a direct relationship to the practitioners' understanding of smartness. The authors portray and discuss the City of Munich institutional architecture overhaul and its expected and realized benefits, and compare the results to those of an earlier study on the City of Seattle. Both city governments evidently pursue different approaches, the effectiveness of which can more readily be assessed only at a future point of the smart city evolution.

scholarly journals Knowledge-Based Smart City Service System

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 965
Author(s):  
Giuseppe D’Aniello ◽  
Matteo Gaeta ◽  
Francesco Orciuoli ◽  
Giuseppe Sansonetti ◽  
Francesca Sorgente
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Service System ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

A smart city can be defined as a city exploiting information and communication technologies to enhance the quality of life of its citizens by providing them with improved services while ensuring a conscious use of the available limited resources. This paper introduces a conceptual framework for the smart city, namely, the Smart City Service System. The framework proposes a vision of the smart city as a service system according to the principles of the Service-Dominant Logic and the service science theories. The rationale is that the services offered within the city can be improved and optimized via the exploitation of information shared by the citizens. The Smart City Service System is implemented as an ontology-based system that supports the decision-making processes at the government level through reasoning and inference processes, providing the decision-makers with a common operational picture of what is happening in the city. A case study related to the local public transportation service is proposed to demonstrate the feasibility and validity of the framework. An experimental evaluation using the Situation Awareness Global Assessment Technique (SAGAT) has been performed to measure the impact of the framework on the decision-makers’ level of situation awareness.

scholarly journals Praktik Paradiplomasi dalam Implementasi Kerjasama Smart City Pemerintah Kota Bandung dan Kota Seoul

PERSPEKTIF ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 569-577
Author(s):  
Renny Candradewi Puspitarini ◽  
Fahrisya Tiko Septiarika ◽  
Randy Bramastya
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
City Government ◽  
Quebec City ◽  
Policy Advocacy ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Transnational Relations ◽  
Subnational Government ◽  
Secondary Information ◽  
The City ◽  
Smart Government

Paradiplomacy was popular in the early 1980s, when the Quebec City government strengthened cooperation with regional governments of other countries and other state actors in international relations. This phenomenon was studied in depth by diplomacy experts, namely Duchacek and Soldatos, which was later implemented in practice in transnational relations between countries in the world. The same thing was done by the city government of Bandung. The Bandung City Government undergoes the stages of smart collaboration formulation. An important process in paradiplomacy is the occurrence of communication contained in the policy advocacy process of the Seoul City government through the Knowledge Sharing Program (KSP) under the Ministry of Economy and Finance of South Korea. This study aims to see the Bandung City government as a subnational government entity conducting diplomacy outside the context of traditional diplomacy, namely paradiplomacy in implementing Smart City cooperation with the City of Seoul in 2016-2019. This research was conducted using a qualitative approach with literature study methods. The literature study method is useful for gathering secondary information needed to support findings in research. This study produces a map of cooperation between the City of Seoul and the City of Bandung which has not been discussed in a similar study using a paradiplomation framework that combines the concepts of Duchacek, Soldatos and Keohane. The cooperation map referred to is an in-depth explanation of the smart city of Bandung which includes Smart Branding, Smart Living, Smart Environment and Smart Government.

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