With deepening links between technology and urban management, the means to innovate, scale-up, and implement “smart city” initiatives reside primarily with governments and corporations. The individual citizen is outside the conversation, as in the bygone rationalist era of urban renewal. Planning is in danger of again becoming a game of high politics and technocracy, reversing progress made during the rise of collaborative and advocacy planning from the 1960s onward.

http://www.atimes.com/article/being-smarter-with-our-cities/

“Being smarter with our cities.” Asia Times, 19 April 2017.

https://www.policyforum.net/being-smarter-with-our-cities/

“Being smarter with our cities: technology or the re-humanisation of urban policy?” Policy Forum (ANU), 18 April 2017.