IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/cjutxx/v26y2019i2p147-152.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Towards Post-Anthropocentric Cities: Reconceptualizing Smart Cities to Evade Urban Ecocide

Author

Listed:
  • Tan Yigitcanlar
  • Marcus Foth
  • Md. Kamruzzaman

Abstract

This short piece acts as a coda to this journal’s special issue on “Smart Cities and Innovative Technologies.” First, it provides a retrospective view of the origins of the smart city concept. The paper, secondly, presents the most recent perspectives on the new interpretations of the smart city notion. It then provides a commentary on the potential directions for a better reconceptualization of smart cities to evade a most likely urban ecocide. Lastly, the short communication concludes by asking two critical questions: (a) Will urban scholars, planners, designers, and activists be able to convince urban policymakers and the general public of the need for a post-anthropocentric urban turnaround? (b) How do the public, private, and academic sectors along with communities pave the way for post-anthropocentric cities and more-than-human futures?

Suggested Citation

  • Tan Yigitcanlar & Marcus Foth & Md. Kamruzzaman, 2019. "Towards Post-Anthropocentric Cities: Reconceptualizing Smart Cities to Evade Urban Ecocide," Journal of Urban Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(2), pages 147-152, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:cjutxx:v:26:y:2019:i:2:p:147-152
    DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2018.1524249
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/10630732.2018.1524249
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/10630732.2018.1524249?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Walter Fieuw & Marcus Foth & Glenda Amayo Caldwell, 2022. "Towards a More-than-Human Approach to Smart and Sustainable Urban Development: Designing for Multispecies Justice," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(2), pages 1-13, January.
    2. Mariusz J. Ligarski & Tomasz Owczarek, 2023. "How Cities Study Quality of Life and Use This Information: Results of an Empirical Study," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(10), pages 1-18, May.
    3. Clement, Dr. Jessica & Crutzen, Prof. Nathalie, 2021. "How Local Policy Priorities Set the Smart City Agenda," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 171(C).
    4. Yahya Sheikhnejad & Tan Yigitcanlar, 2020. "Scientific Landscape of Sustainable Urban and Rural Areas Research: A Systematic Scientometric Analysis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(4), pages 1-28, February.
    5. Can Bıyık, 2019. "Smart Cities in Turkey: Approaches, Advances and Applications with Greater Consideration for Future Urban Transport Development," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(12), pages 1-33, June.
    6. Mauro ROMANELLI & Antonella ROMANELLI, 2022. "Shaping smart sustainable urban futures," Smart Cities International Conference (SCIC) Proceedings, Smart-EDU Hub, vol. 10, pages 381-386, November.
    7. Monique Mann & Peta Mitchell & Marcus Foth & Irina Anastasiu, 2020. "#BlockSidewalk to Barcelona: Technological sovereignty and the social license to operate smart cities," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 71(9), pages 1103-1115, September.
    8. Tan Yigitcanlar & Federico Cugurullo, 2020. "The Sustainability of Artificial Intelligence: An Urbanistic Viewpoint from the Lens of Smart and Sustainable Cities," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(20), pages 1-24, October.
    9. Tao Li & Jianqiang Luo & Kaitong Liang & Chaonan Yi & Lei Ma, 2023. "Synergy of Patent and Open-Source-Driven Sustainable Climate Governance under Green AI: A Case Study of TinyML," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(18), pages 1-21, September.
    10. Lim Seng BOON & Jalaluddin Abdul MALEK & Mohd Yusof HUSSAIN & Zurinah TAHIR, 2020. "Understanding the trends and characteristics of smart urbanism across continents," Smart Cities and Regional Development (SCRD) Journal, Smart-EDU Hub, vol. 4(1), pages 23-35, March.
    11. Yigitcanlar, Tan & Han, Hoon & Kamruzzaman, Md. & Ioppolo, Giuseppe & Sabatini-Marques, Jamile, 2019. "The making of smart cities: Are Songdo, Masdar, Amsterdam, San Francisco and Brisbane the best we could build?," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
    12. Jalaluddin Abdul Malek & Seng Boon Lim & Tan Yigitcanlar, 2021. "Social Inclusion Indicators for Building Citizen-Centric Smart Cities: A Systematic Literature Review," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(1), pages 1-29, January.
    13. Tan Yigitcanlar & Rashid Mehmood & Juan M. Corchado, 2021. "Green Artificial Intelligence: Towards an Efficient, Sustainable and Equitable Technology for Smart Cities and Futures," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(16), pages 1-14, August.
    14. Palmyra Repette & Jamile Sabatini-Marques & Tan Yigitcanlar & Denilson Sell & Eduardo Costa, 2021. "The Evolution of City-as-a-Platform: Smart Urban Development Governance with Collective Knowledge-Based Platform Urbanism," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(1), pages 1-25, January.
    15. Tan Yigitcanlar & Kevin C. Desouza & Luke Butler & Farnoosh Roozkhosh, 2020. "Contributions and Risks of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Building Smarter Cities: Insights from a Systematic Review of the Literature," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(6), pages 1-38, March.
    16. Tan Yigitcanlar, 2021. "Greening the Artificial Intelligence for a Sustainable Planet: An Editorial Commentary," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(24), pages 1-9, December.
    17. Debora Sotto & Arlindo Philippi & Tan Yigitcanlar & Md Kamruzzaman, 2019. "Aligning Urban Policy with Climate Action in the Global South: Are Brazilian Cities Considering Climate Emergency in Local Planning Practice?," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(18), pages 1-31, September.
    18. Mirko Guaralda & Greg Hearn & Marcus Foth & Tan Yigitcanlar & Severine Mayere & Lisa Law, 2020. "Towards Australian Regional Turnaround: Insights into Sustainably Accommodating Post-Pandemic Urban Growth in Regional Towns and Cities," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(24), pages 1-13, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:cjutxx:v:26:y:2019:i:2:p:147-152. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/cjut20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.