CALL FOR PAPERS
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, 5-9 April 2017
Session Title: Situating Smart - Spatial and Material Politics of Smart Urbanisation
Organisers: Andrew Karvonen (University of Manchester) and Federico Cugurullo (Trinity College Dublin)
The smart city is rapidly moving from rhetoric to reality. Over the last five years, visionary and utopian smart cities such as Masdar City and Songdo have been superseded by multiple activities of smart urbanisation that are spatially bounded, context specific, fragmented, partial, and ad hoc. The emergence of the ‘actually existing smart city’ (Shelton et al 2015) involves new logics of urban development that translate and integrate novel ICT strategies into existing specific political, material, and cultural contexts. This points towards a new mode of urbanisation that is subtler and more pervasive, with smart as an incremental and provisional approach that steers urban development under the guise of technological innovation.
In this session, we invite presentations on empirical findings of how smart urbanisation is unfolding both rhetorically and materially in cities of the Global North and South. Suggested themes include but are not limited to:
- Governance and politics
- Citizenship and co-creation
- Urban design and space
- Metabolism and materiality
- Local agendas and future visions
If you are interested in contributing to this session, please email your title and abstract to Andrew Karvonen ([log in to unmask]) by 10 October.
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