Smart Transitions in City Regionalism: Territory, Politics and the Quest for Competitiveness and Sustainability

ISBN-13: 9781138903609 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 244 str.

Tassilo Herrschel; Yonn Dierwechter

Opis

In recent years, "smartness" has risen as a buzzword to characterise urban policy that goes beyond a one-dimensional growth agenda by addressing the multifaceted quest for sustainability, itself a much used term. Hence, it is contended that there is a new emphasis on qualitative and responsible growth. Central to this shift has been the concept of "transition" - providing the broader context and points of reference for adopting smartness in reconciling competing interests and agendas in city-regional governance.

Hence, recent discourses of smartness and smart cities now typically incorporate wider political and policy concerns with economic competitiveness, ecological sustainability, energy budgets, improved administrative efficacy, data integration and coordination, technology, citizen empowerment leading to, it is hoped, ultimately more agile, "intelligent "and efficient cultures of territorial (e)governance.

In this book, the authors scrutinise these ambitions and claims and how these smart cities and city regions interact with conventional state structures and territorialities."

Spis treści

Introduction, 1. The Smart Turn: Tracing Transitions to City-Regional Smartness, 2. Economic Factors in Shaping City Regionalism and ‘Smartness’, 3. Political Factors in Shaping City Regionalism and ‘Smartness’, 4. Going for ‘smartness’: reframing city-regionalism, 5. Beyond Post-Fordist Regimes: Smart City-Regionalism in North America and Western Europe, 6. Beyond Post-Authoritarian Regimes: Smart City-Regionalism in Eastern Europe and South Africa, 7. Conclusions: Smart transitions in city-regionalism