Reclaiming the “Smart” agenda for fair human outcomes enabled by technology | The Urban Technologist

Reclaiming the “Smart” agenda for fair human outcomes enabled by technology | The Urban Technologist
Over the last 5 years, I’ve often used this blog to explore definitions of what a “Smart City” is. The theme that’s dominated my thinking is the need to synthesise human, urban and technology perspectives on cities and our experience of them.
The challenge with attempting such a broad synthesis within a succinct definition is that you end up with a very high-level, conceptual definition – one that might be intellectually true, but that does a very poor job of explaining to the wider world what a Smart City is, and why it’s important.