Reacting to critiques that the smart city is overly technocratic and instrumental, companies
and cities have reframed their initiatives as 'citizen-centric'. However, what 'citizen …

We are moving into an era where instrumentation, datafication, and computerization are
routinely pervading the very fabric of cities, coupled with the interlinking, integration, and …

This article conceptualises the European smart city as an assemblage of peripheral smart
city network practices and central smart city project practices. Both practices are primarily …

The smart cities policy approach has been intensively implemented in European cities under
the Horizon 2020 programme. However, these implementations not only reduce the …

In smart city practice, urban policymakers show to focus foremost on the technologies sec.
This often leads to quite uniform, technocratic and corporate-led ways of handling urban …

To date, critical examinations of smart cities have largely ignored their temporality. In this
article, I consider smart cities from a spatiotemporal perspective, arguing that they produce a …

While there is a relatively extensive literature concerning the nature of smart cities in
general, the roles of corporate actors in their production and the development and …

By 2030, the population living in cities will increase by an additional 1.5 billion people,
placing a great strain on resources, infrastructure, jobs and healthcare (UN 2018). It has …

Recently, the concept of the smart city has gained growing popularity. As cities worldwide
have set the aim to harness digital technologies to their development, increasing focus came …

This article addresses the problem of replication among smart cities in the European
Commission's Horizon 2020: Smart Cities and Communities (EC-H2020-SCC) framework …