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Title	Democracy And Governance In The Smart City
ID_Doc	18274
Authors	Ramos C.T.
Year	2019
Published	Smart Cities: Issues and Challenges Mapping Political, Social and Economic Risks and Threats
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-816639-0.00002-8
Abstract	Smart cities are the encounter of growing urbanization with technological innovation. They are said to have a potential to foster “livability, workability, and sustainability” (Smart Cities Council, 2016), but do they also have a potential to foster democracy? The chapter initially addresses “smart urbanism” as functional and normative utopia and discusses whether democracy is necessary and feasible in the smart city. It is argued that democracy in the smart city is a matter of choice, rather than a deterministic outcome or sheer unfeasibility. There is indeed a risk that functional concerns will prevail over democratic choices, given the powerful technological instruments on which the smart city is built and their possible connections with either market-biased options or authoritarian surveillance. Examples of democratic procedures in the smart city-networking, decentralization, increased transparency and accountability, new modes of popular participation via the virtual agora, and hence collaborative democracy and citizens’ empowerment-are discussed. © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Author Keywords	Citizens’empowerment; City governance; Collaborative democracy; Smart cities; Utopia

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