121R_Smart City appropriation by local actors: An instrument in the making (research summary)

What is The Future for Cities? · Mar 27, 2023 · 8m

Are you interested in smart cities as a functional instrument to influence public debate and policy? Our summary today works with the article titled Smart City appropriation by local actors: An instrument in the making from 2019 by Jonathan Desdemoustier, Nathalie Crutzen, Mario Cools, and Jacques Teller, published in the Cities journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the different urban actors understand and appropriate the smart city concept. This article presents that smart city, indeed, can be an instrument and that each actor…