Building smart cities, the just way. A critical review of "smart" and "just" initiatives in Bristol, UK. (May 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Building smart cities, the just way. A critical review of "smart" and "just" initiatives in Bristol, UK. (May 2019)
- Main Title:
- Building smart cities, the just way. A critical review of "smart" and "just" initiatives in Bristol, UK
- Authors:
- Michalec, Aleksandra (Ola)
Hayes, Enda
Longhurst, James - Abstract:
- Highlights: Our analysis shows how practitioners embed climate justice in urban smart initiatives. Discourse analysis helped to reveal the explicit, implied and obscured aims of smart city initiatives. Our heuristic could improve traditional policy analysis assessments. Abstract: This article investigates the application of the "smart cities" and "urban climate justice" concepts to two urban initiatives based in Bristol, UK. Both ideas are increasingly popular in academic literature. Yet, little is known about their understanding by the practitioners such as policymakers, third sector organisations and citizens. Two case studies, a community-based energy efficiency initiative, and a local authority electric vehicle policy were critically reviewed using discourse analysis. The method helped to reveal the explicit, implied and obscured aims of the examined initiatives. Using discourse analysis, the researchers developed a heuristic which could improve traditional policy analysis approaches. The examination of case studies illustrates how practitioners understand the notions of "urban climate justice" and "smart cities" and whether their conceptualisations differ from those present in the academic literature. Finally, the paper offers methodological suggestions for embedding justice in "smart" initiatives at each stage of policy and project design.
- Is Part Of:
- Sustainable cities and society. Volume 47(2019)
- Journal:
- Sustainable cities and society
- Issue:
- Volume 47(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 47, Issue 2019 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 47
- Issue:
- 2019
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0047-2019-0000
- Page Start:
- Page End:
- Publication Date:
- 2019-05
- Subjects:
- EV Electric Vehicles -- CHEESE Cold Homes Energy Efficiency Surveying -- DA Discourse Analysis -- GHG Greenhouse Gases -- KPI Key Performance Indicators -- SDGs Sustainable Development Goals -- ULEV Ultra-low-emission-vehicles -- WEF World Economic Forum
Smart city -- Urban policy -- Bristol -- Climate justice -- Discourse analysis
Sustainable urban development -- Periodicals
Sustainable buildings -- Periodicals
Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Periodicals
307.76 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/22106707/ ↗
http://www.sciencedirect.com/ ↗
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/sustainable-cities-and-society ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1016/j.scs.2019.101510 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2210-6707
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