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Editor's choice The ‘actually existing smart city’

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  • Taylor Shelton
  • Matthew Zook
  • Alan Wiig

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This paper grounds the critique of the ‘smart city’ in its historical and geographical context. Adapting Brenner and Theodore’s notion of ‘actually existing neoliberalism’, we suggest a greater attention be paid to the ‘actually existing smart city’, rather than the exceptional or paradigmatic smart cities of Songdo, Masdar and Living PlanIT Valley. Through a closer analysis of cases in Louisville and Philadelphia, we demonstrate the utility of understanding the material effects of these policies in actual cities around the world, with a particular focus on how and from where these policies have arisen, and how they have unevenly impacted the places that have adopted them.

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  • Taylor Shelton & Matthew Zook & Alan Wiig, 2015. "Editor's choice The ‘actually existing smart city’," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 8(1), pages 13-25.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cjrecs:v:8:y:2015:i:1:p:13-25.
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    1. Chong Ju Choi & Carla C. J. M. Millar & Caroline Y. L. Wong, 2005. "Knowledge and Cities," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Knowledge Entanglements, chapter 0, pages 39-51, Palgrave Macmillan.
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