TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION: TRENDS, CONFLICTS &

CONSEQUENCES FOR URBANIZATION

Federico Caprotti

federico.caprotti@kcl.ac.uk

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Batty et al. (2013) Visualising spatial and social media. CASA Working Paper Series. Paper 190, April 2013. Available at: http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/casa/pdf/paper190.pdf

CHALLENGES / OPPORTUNITIES: 1SMART URBAN SUSTAINABILIT(IES)?

European Smart Cities FP7 Project (European Smart Cities 2014)

CHALLENGES / OPPORTUNITIES: 2SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY

• Intergenerational equity and the digital divide

• Corporate visions

• The ‘Smart Citizen’

• Surveillance

• Social sustainability

(Corning 2014)

CHALLENGES / CRITIQUES: 3: SMART CITIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE

• Technological fetishism: crisis and the city

• Smart cities and the ‘Global South’?

• Network (in)security and resilience

• Transitional innovations

From The Telegraph, finance section, 4 November 2014

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