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Smart Urbanism and Digital Activism in Southern Italy

Smart Urbanism and Digital Activism in Southern Italy

Arturo Di Bella
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 27
ISBN13: 9781522556466|ISBN10: 152255646X|EISBN13: 9781522556473
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5646-6.ch067
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Di Bella, Arturo. "Smart Urbanism and Digital Activism in Southern Italy." E-Planning and Collaboration: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 1446-1472. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5646-6.ch067

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Di Bella, A. (2018). Smart Urbanism and Digital Activism in Southern Italy. In I. Management Association (Ed.), E-Planning and Collaboration: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1446-1472). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5646-6.ch067

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Di Bella, Arturo. "Smart Urbanism and Digital Activism in Southern Italy." In E-Planning and Collaboration: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 1446-1472. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5646-6.ch067

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Abstract

This chapter debates the competing approaches of the smart city model. It starts by critically discussing top-down approaches, focusing on influence of neoliberal urban experimentation, the role of dominant social interests, the reduction of the city and of urban citizenship, and the risks linked with its uncritical assumption. Then, attention shifts on counter-geographies of digital urbanism drawn from below by citizens, communities, and social movements, as part of a fragmented landscape of activism engaged in building alternative and bottom-up approaches of the smart city. Making use of the case study of a city in southern Italy, Catania, the aim of the chapter is threefold since it discusses the critical aspects linked with dissemination of smart city model as a means for investigating the evolutionary neoliberalization developed in southern Italy during last decades, the influence of neoliberal scripts of urban planning on policy practices, and then the potential alternative activities of digital urbanism hold for a more human-centered and socially embedded smart city.

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