The ideological alignment of smart urbanism in Singapore: Critical reflections on a political paradox
The ideological alignment of smart urbanism in Singapore: Critical reflections on a political paradox
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DOI：
10.1177/0042098017746528
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发表时间：
2018-03-01
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影响因子：
4.7
通讯作者：
Woods, Orlando
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作者：
Kong, Lily;Woods, Orlando
在过去的十年里，关于智能城市化带来各种持久改善形式的潜力，已经有很多文章。将数字技术嵌入城市基础设施的做法已得到充分证明，城市治理和管理的智能模式的效率也得到了称赞。然而，最近，这种话语被贴上了霸权的标签，并被指责发展了一种智能技术的观点，这种观点由于未能批评其社会政治影响而变得狭隘。通过关注新加坡的智慧国家倡议的案例，本文拥抱了智慧城市主义的核心悖论，并在这样做的过程中，质疑意识形态和实践之间的紧张关系，效率和控制，访问和选择，以及智能治理和智能公民。它还展示了这种紧张关系是如何通过“第四空间”（fourthspace）产生的--第四空间是共同创造的数字化城市空间，有助于扩大和传播社会和政治责任。最后，它提出了这样的空间不仅有可能从根本上改变城市环境，而且有可能改变政府和公民在设计城市未来中的作用。
Over the past decade, much has been written about the potential of smart urbanism to bring about various and lasting forms of betterment. The embedding of digital technologies within urban infrastructures has been well documented, and the efficiencies of smart models of urban governance and management have been lauded. More recently, however, the discourse has been labelled hegemonic', and accused of developing a view of smart technology that is blinkered by its failure to critique its socio-political effects. By focusing on the case of Singapore's Smart Nation' initiative, this paper embraces the paradoxes at the heart of smart urbanism and, in doing so, interrogates the tension between ideology and praxis, efficiency and control, access and choice, and smart governance and smart citizenship. It also demonstrates how such tensions are (re)produced through fourthspace' - the digitally enabled spaces of urbanism that are co-created, and that contribute to an expansion and diffusion of social and political responsibility. It ends by suggesting how such spaces have the potential to radically transform not just the urban environment, but also the role of government and citizens in designing urban futures.