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dc.contributor.authorJoss, S
dc.contributor.authorSengers, F
dc.contributor.authorSchraaven, D
dc.contributor.authorCaprotti, F
dc.contributor.authorDayot, Y
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-21T10:52:01Z
dc.date.issued2019-02-13
dc.description.abstractDespite its growing ubiquitous presence, the smart city continues to struggle for definitional clarity and practical import. In response, this study interrogates the smart city as global discourse network by examining a collection of key texts associated with cities worldwide. Using a list of 5,553 cities, a systematic webometric exercise was conducted to measure hit counts produced by searching for ‘smart city’. Consequently, 27 cities with the highest validated hit counts were selected. Next, 346 online texts were collected from among the top 20 hits across each of the selected cities, and comprehensively analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively using AntConc software. The findings confirm the presence of a strong globalising narrative which emphasises world cities as ‘best practice’ models. Moreover, they reveal the smart city’s association – beyond the quest for incremental, technical improvements of current urban systems and processes – with a pronounced transformative governance agenda. The article identifies five critical junctures (interlocking discourses) at the heart of the evolving smart city discourse regime; these shed light on the ongoing boundary work in which the smart city is engaged and which contain significant unresolved tensions. The paper concludes with a discussion of resulting implications for research, policy and practice.en_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 26 (1), pp. 3-34.en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/10630732.2018.1558387
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/34835
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis (Routledge)en_GB
dc.rights© 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.subjectsmart cityen_GB
dc.subjectsustainable citiesen_GB
dc.subjecturban studiesen_GB
dc.subjectwebometricen_GB
dc.subjecturban changeen_GB
dc.titleThe Smart City as global discourse: storylines and critical junctures across 27 citiesen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.identifier.issn1063-0732
dc.descriptionThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis (Routledge) via the DOI in this record.en_GB
dc.identifier.journalJournal of Urban Technologyen_GB
refterms.dateFOA2019-02-14T13:47:39Z


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