Smart City Planning: Complexity
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Smart City Planning : Complexity. / Ekman, Ulrik.
In: International Journal of E-Planning Research, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1, 20.04.2018, p. 1-21.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Smart City Planning
T2 - Complexity
AU - Ekman, Ulrik
PY - 2018/4/20
Y1 - 2018/4/20
N2 - This article reflects on the challenges for urban planning posed by the emergence of smart cities in network societies. In particular, it reflects on reductionist tendencies in existing smart city planning. Here the concern is with the implications of prior reductions of complexity which have been undertaken by placing primacy in planning on information technology, economical profit, and top-down political government. Rather than pointing urban planning towards a different ordering of these reductions, this article argues in favor of approaches to smart city planning via complexity theory. Specifically, this article argues in favor of approaching smart city plans holistically as topologies of organized complexity. Here, smart city planning is seen as a theory and practice engaging with a complex adaptive urban system which continuously operates on its potential. The actualizations in the face of contingency of such potential are what might have the city evolve over time, its organization, its wholeness, and its continued existence being at stake from moment to moment.
AB - This article reflects on the challenges for urban planning posed by the emergence of smart cities in network societies. In particular, it reflects on reductionist tendencies in existing smart city planning. Here the concern is with the implications of prior reductions of complexity which have been undertaken by placing primacy in planning on information technology, economical profit, and top-down political government. Rather than pointing urban planning towards a different ordering of these reductions, this article argues in favor of approaches to smart city planning via complexity theory. Specifically, this article argues in favor of approaching smart city plans holistically as topologies of organized complexity. Here, smart city planning is seen as a theory and practice engaging with a complex adaptive urban system which continuously operates on its potential. The actualizations in the face of contingency of such potential are what might have the city evolve over time, its organization, its wholeness, and its continued existence being at stake from moment to moment.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - smarte byer
KW - Byplanlægning
KW - politik
KW - Affekt
KW - Kompleksitet
KW - ubicomp
KW - smart city
KW - planning
KW - complexity
KW - topology
KW - reductionism
KW - ubicomp
KW - network society
U2 - 10.4018/IJEPR.2018070101
DO - 10.4018/IJEPR.2018070101
M3 - Journal article
VL - 7
SP - 1
EP - 21
JO - International Journal of E-Planning Research
JF - International Journal of E-Planning Research
SN - 2160-9918
IS - 3
M1 - 1
ER -
ID: 172506222