I attended the Nordic Geographers Meeting in Stockholm and co-organised three sessions on ‘Smart for Whom?’ with Federico Cugurullo. Thanks to following contributors for their insightful presentations:
- The Social and Environmental Implications of Smart Cities: A Global Comparative Research Agenda, Byron Miller
- Doing smart governance: an assemblage approach, Matthew Cook and Simon Joss
- Understanding Smart City Policies through a critical analytical framework: the cases of Cape Town and Amsterdam, Hebe Verrest and Karin Pfeffer
- Interface points and divisions in a smart urban district in the Dublin Docklands, Liam Heaphy
- Knowledge Politics and Representational Inequalities in Open Calgary, Ryan L. Burns
- Stretching “Smart”: Enhancing Health and Well-Being of Urban Residents in Kashiwa- no-ha Smart City, Greg Trencher and Andrew Karvonen
- The UK Smart City and its Publics, Rob Cowley, Simon Joss and Federico Caprotti
- The “smart” inhabitant: ‘Digi-Tal’ services and social differences in Tel Aviv City, Tali Hatuka & Hadas Zur
- What the smart city model can learn from Latin American cities. The case of Medellin, Colombia, Gynna Millan
- How we know where we are in the smart city – citizen perceptions in Amsterdam, Christine Richter, Shazade Jameson, Linnet Taylor and Carmen Pérez del Pulgar
- The unsustainability of smart-city governance: new hardware, old software, Federico Cugurullo
- Equality and the Smart City: Negotiating (Post)Democracy in Manchester, UK, Joe Blakey
- Exploring agriculture in smart urban development: a realistic food supply or middle class indulgence?, Per-Anders Langendahl, Matthew Cook, Cecilia Mark-Herbert, and Annika Gottberg
- Technology beyond politics? Smart urbanism and social inequalities in the European city, Henrike Rau, Samuel Mössner, and Marco Santangelo
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