A new article, authored by Federico Caprotti and Liu Dong, has been published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change. The paper, titled ‘Emerging platform urbanism in China: Reconfigurations of data, citizenship and materialities‘, charts the rise of urban platforms as a new development of the smart city. From the paper’s introduction: ‘Urban platforms are a key …
Category: Publications
New Publications
We have two newly published journal articles which draw on research from our smart eco-cities project. Both are available on open access. The first was co-authored by Linjun Xie, Andrew Flynn, May Tan-Mullins, Ali Cheshmehzangi, and appears in the journal Political Geography. It reviews the development of Chongming Eco-Island from a political ecology perspective. Download the article …
New Article on ‘Flagship’ Smart Urban Spaces
Our colleague Federico Caprotti has a new project article out today in Urban Studies, available on open access here. The article explores the significance of two prominent sites in the UK where the smart city is made visible: Glasgow’s Operations Centre and Bristol’s Data Dome. Such ‘flagship’ spaces play particular roles in defining and justifying …
New book: Inside Smart Cities
Inside Smart Cities, a new book edited by our project colleague Federico Caprotti along with Andrew Karvonen and Federico Cugurullo, is out today, published by Routledge. The book uses 23 empirically detailed case studies to provide real-world evidence on how local authorities, small and medium enterprises, corporations, utility providers and civil society groups are implementing …
New Report: Smart-Eco Cities in France
Our report on smart-eco urban development in France, compiled by Eric Jolivet and Anna Bond, is now available to download. It includes profiles of Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Nice, and Toulouse with detailed descriptions of selected relevant activities taking place in each city. Please visit our publications page to find other project outputs, including reports on other countries.
Two New Project Publications
We have a new journal article and a book to announce. The article, on the ‘Smart City as Anti-Planning in the UK’, was co-authored by Rob Cowley and Federico Caprotti, and was published online today in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. The book, on Eco-Development in China, was written by Ali Cheshmehzangi and his …
Future Cities: Three New Comment Pieces
Three of our team have contributed interrelated thought pieces on the future of our cities to the ‘Politics of an Urban Age’ collection in Palgrave Communications. Federico Caprotti proposes that human needs should be brought back to the centre of thinking and planning for the urban future. You can read it here. Simon Joss argues for …
Low-carbon promises and realities: Lessons from three socio-technical experiments in Shanghai
A new journal article, drawing partly on our fieldwork in China last year, has just been published. It explores what has become of three planned low-carbon developments in the Shanghai region (Anting New Town, Dongtan Eco-City, and Hongqiao CBD’s low-carbon transportation hub). The authors of the article include our smart-eco project colleagues Frans Sengers, Linjun …
What Can Urban Sustainability Experiments Do? (Our Side Event at the World Urban Forum)
Many thanks to everybody who came to our session at the UN-Habitat World Urban Forum (WUF9) last week in Kuala Lumpur. WUF has become a major biennial event – this year attracting 22,000 participants from around the world. In its own words, it is “recognised as the foremost global arena for interaction among policymakers, …
New Report: Smart-Eco Cities in Germany
Our report on smart-eco urban development in Germany, edited by Philipp Späth, is now available to download. It includes profiles of Berlin, Hamburg and Munich, with detailed descriptions of selected relevant activities taking place in each city. Please visit our publications page to find other project outputs, including reports on other countries. 中文请微信搜索smartecocities公众平台