A smart and ubiquitous urban future? Contrasting large-scale agendas and street-level dreams

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Autor(a) principal: Ylipulli,Johanna
Data de Publicação: 2015
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1646-59542015000400005
Resumo: This article examines the dreams and wishes of young-adult city residents regarding future ICT development, comparing its findings with two visions of ICT development offered by large-scale urban agendas, namely ‘smart cities' and ‘ubiquitous computing.' The article explores how the visions of ordinary city inhabitants contest or resonate with grand visions of urban future, and investigates alternative agendas that might be built upon those visions. The research site, the city of Oulu in northern Finland, offers a concrete example of a ‘future city' in which many ideas relating to ‘smart' and ‘ubiquitous' urban space have been put into practice. The results indicate there is an urgent need to address questions pertaining to control, agency, and resistance in designing further technology for cities and to employ design practices that enable the creation and implementation of bottom-up visions.
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title A smart and ubiquitous urban future? Contrasting large-scale agendas and street-level dreams
spellingShingle A smart and ubiquitous urban future? Contrasting large-scale agendas and street-level dreams
Ylipulli,Johanna
Ubiquitous computing
smart city
ethnography
urban technology
future visions
title_short A smart and ubiquitous urban future? Contrasting large-scale agendas and street-level dreams
title_full A smart and ubiquitous urban future? Contrasting large-scale agendas and street-level dreams
title_fullStr A smart and ubiquitous urban future? Contrasting large-scale agendas and street-level dreams
title_full_unstemmed A smart and ubiquitous urban future? Contrasting large-scale agendas and street-level dreams
title_sort A smart and ubiquitous urban future? Contrasting large-scale agendas and street-level dreams
author Ylipulli,Johanna
author_facet Ylipulli,Johanna
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Ylipulli,Johanna
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Ubiquitous computing
smart city
ethnography
urban technology
future visions
topic Ubiquitous computing
smart city
ethnography
urban technology
future visions
description This article examines the dreams and wishes of young-adult city residents regarding future ICT development, comparing its findings with two visions of ICT development offered by large-scale urban agendas, namely ‘smart cities' and ‘ubiquitous computing.' The article explores how the visions of ordinary city inhabitants contest or resonate with grand visions of urban future, and investigates alternative agendas that might be built upon those visions. The research site, the city of Oulu in northern Finland, offers a concrete example of a ‘future city' in which many ideas relating to ‘smart' and ‘ubiquitous' urban space have been put into practice. The results indicate there is an urgent need to address questions pertaining to control, agency, and resistance in designing further technology for cities and to employ design practices that enable the creation and implementation of bottom-up visions.
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