CFP - 7th Nordic Geographers Meeting , Stockholm 18-21 June 2017.

Smart for whom? An exploration of the social and environmental aspects of smart urbanism

Over the last decade, the smart city has emerged across the world as a model of urban development and regeneration, with considerable repercussions across environmental, social and economic spheres. Much of the emphasis of smart cities is on economic development and innovation while very little is known about the impacts of ‘actually existing smart cities’ on societies, economies, and ecological systems. This session builds upon the main theme of the conference, inequality, to examine the distribution of the socio-economic and environmental burdens and benefits produced by smart city initiatives. Appropriate topics for the session include smart interventions as they relate to environmental impacts, community cohesion and empowerment, local economic development, policymaking and governance, and related issues.

Conveners:

Federico Cugurullo (Trinity College Dublin) and Andrew Karvonen (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

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