Smart City Citizenship

Smart City Citizenship provides rigorous analysis for academics and policymakers on the participatory processes and practices of smart cities to help integrate ICT-related innovation into urban life. Unlike other smart city books that are often edited collections, this book focuses on the business domain and technological disruptions, also examining the role of citizens and the democratic governance issues raised from an interdisciplinary perspective. As smart city research is a fast-growing topic of scientific inquiry and evolving rapidly, this book is an ideal reference for a much needed discussion.

• Utilizes ongoing, worldwide cases for examining current governance issues and the role of citizens in smart cities
• Provides definitions of key citizenship concepts, along with a pedagogical framework and toolkit drawn from a community-oriented perspective
• Shows how to design smart city governance initiatives, projects and policies based on applied research
• Highlights citizen’s perspective and social accountability in both transitional and experimental frameworks

Smart/Sustainable Cities researchers, academics, engineers, practitioners, and government officials

Part 1: Transitioning to Smart Cities
1. The Digital and Social Divide
2. Individualism vs. Collectivism
3. Algorithmic Infrastructures and Data Awareness
4. Master vs. Emergent Governance Planning
5. Data Overload and Scarcity
6. Social Networking
7. Public vs. Private Life
8. Ambient Commons Design
9. Controllable vs. Distributed Socio-Political Process
10. Political Economy in the Neoliberal City

Part 2: Smart Cities Experimentation
11. Digitally Ignorant Societies?
12. Digital Social Innovation
13. Algorithmic Governance and Data Literacy
14. Smart Citizens Decision-Makers or Data-Providers?
15. IoT and AI vs. Citizen Science
16. Citizen Rights Unplugged
17. Urban Co-operatives
18. From Global Competitiveness to Global Resilient Competence
19. The Market, State, and PPP