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| Title | Ruptures And Departures: An Emancipatory Perspective On Planning And Technology |
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| ID_Doc | 47154 |
| Authors | Odendaal N. |
| Year | 2025 |
| Published | Critical Planning Futures: New Directions in Planning Theory |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003402855-10 |
| Abstract | Whilst much of the smart city debate has moved on from its determinist origins, the emphasis on data, and corporate conceptualisations of the smart city, more recently, has led to a resurgence of modernist modes of envisaging cities. This chapter builds on concerns that the smart impulse may take us back to a technocratic form of planning, by examining such problematic continuities whilst also considering the ruptures, that allow for emancipatory forms of planning. By focusing on agency and different forms of co-production enabled by platform technologies and social media, this chapter concludes on how a reframing of the smart city in relation to planning potentially contributes to more hopeful planning practices. This chapter builds on concerns that the smart impulse may take us back to a technocratic form of planning, by examining such problematic continuities whilst also considering the ruptures, that allow for emancipatory forms of planning. By focusing on agency and different forms of co-production enabled by platform technologies and social media, this chapter concludes on how a reframing of the smart city in relation to planning potentially contributes to more hopeful planning practices. © 2025 selection and editorial matter, Philip Allmendinger, Mark Tewdwr-Jones, and Matthew Wargent; individual chapters, the contributors. |
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