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Title	Smart Urbanism And Digital Activism In Southern Italy
ID_Doc	51682
Authors	Di Bella A.
Year	2015
Published	Emerging Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities in Urban E-Planning
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8150-7.ch006
Abstract	This chapter debates the competing approaches of the smart city model. It starts by critically discussing top-down approaches, focusing on influence of neoliberal urban experimentation, the role of dominant social interests, the reduction of the city and of urban citizenship, and the risks linked with its uncritical assumption. Then, attention shifts on counter-geographies of digital urbanism drawn from below by citizens, communities, and social movements, as part of a fragmented landscape of activism engaged in building alternative and bottom-up approaches of the smart city. Making use of the case study of a city in southern Italy, Catania, the aim of the chapter is threefold since it discusses the critical aspects linked with dissemination of smart city model as a means for investigating the evolutionary neoliberalization developed in southern Italy during last decades, the influence of neoliberal scripts of urban planning on policy practices, and then the potential alternative activities of digital urbanism hold for a more human-centered and socially embedded smart city. & 2015, IGI Global, All rights reserved.
Author Keywords	Big data; Cognitive capitalism; Digital activism; Policy transfer; Post-political condition; Social innovation; Urban neoliberalization

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