Urban Studies· 2013Q1
Smartmentality: The Smart City as Disciplinary Strategy
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Short summary
The smart city concept functions as a disciplinary strategy, imposing a moral order by defining 'good' versus 'bad' urban practices through technical parameters.
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Key points
- Smart city policies introduce technical parameters to distinguish between 'good' and 'bad' urban practices.
- The smart city discourse can serve as a tool for producing docile subjects.
- Smart city concepts can be used for political legitimization.
- The paper uses theoretical reflections and Italian smart city policies as a case study.
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Abstract
The paper analyses the concept of the smart city in critical perspective, focusing on the power/knowledge implications for the contemporary city. On the one hand, smart city policies support new ways of imagining, organising and managing the city and its flows; on the other, they impress a new moral order on the city by introducing specific technical parameters in order to distinguish between the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ city. The smart city discourse may therefore be a powerful tool for the production of docile subjects and mechanisms of political legitimisation. The paper is largely based on theoretical reflections and uses smart city politics in Italy as a case study. The paper analyses how the smart city discourse proposed by the European Union has been reclassified to produce new visions of the ‘good city’ and the role of private actors and citizens in the management of urban development.
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