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Title	(D)Evolving Smartness: Exploring The Changing Modalities Of Smart City Making In Africa
ID_Doc	59
Authors	Boyle L.; Harlow J.; Keeler L.W.
Year	2024
Published	Urban Geography, 45, 4
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2023.2213035
Abstract	The paper identifies an under-researched mode of smart city-making in Africa characterized by municipal deployments of ICT-driven innovations. This departs from typical framings that view African smart city development as nationally driven, master planned new city developments. An in-depth analysis of the City of Cape Town’s Digital City Strategy provides insights into the mechanisms and processes grounding smart city concepts in African municipalities. Thus, situating Africa’s municipal ICT-driven strategies in the context of a global discourse of smart urbanism and local (and continental) processes of decentralized governance reform. In Cape Town, these global and local forces converge to drive ICT-inspired urbanism that reinforce market-oriented logics of urban governance, largely at the expense of transformative and contextually sensitive ICT deployments. By highlighting the multi-scalar production of smart cities inspired by global discourse yet subjected to local dynamics, the findings offer insights into the political realities of municipal ICT deployments in Africa. © 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Author Keywords	Africa; decentralization; ICT-driven urbanism; municipal governance reform; Smart city development

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