034R_Actually existing smart citizens – Expertise and (non)participation in the making of the smart city (research summary)

What is The Future for Cities? · Feb 14, 2022 · 11m

Summary of the article titled Actually existing smart citizens – Expertise and (non)participation in the making of the smart city from 2019 by Taylor Shelton and Thomas Lodato published in the City – analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how smart citizens are or aren’t involved in establishing the smart city. This article argues that while the citizen participation is crucial to truly democratic systems, the emerging discourse around the promise of smart citizenship fails to…