Corporatization and Smart Cities: Creating a debate about economic interests in future urban infrastructure

Corporatization and Smart Cities: Creating a debate about economic interests in future urban infrastructure

Smart cities are seen as the answer for specific problems, that we will face in the future: overpopulation, shortage of resources, demographic change, etc. At the same time more people than ever will live in cities. This creates huge difficulties for governmental institutions on the one side, but al...

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Main Author: Bücker, Dennis
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS) 2016
Subjects:
Smart Cities
Critical Design
Design Fiction
Urban Interaction Design
Engineering and Technology
Teknik och teknologier
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spelling ndltd-UPSALLA1-oai-DiVA.org-mau-239672020-11-25T05:33:31ZCorporatization and Smart Cities: Creating a debate about economic interests in future urban infrastructureengBücker, DennisMalmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Malmö högskola/Kultur och samhälle2016Smart CitiesCritical DesignDesign FictionUrban Interaction DesignEngineering and TechnologyTeknik och teknologierSmart cities are seen as the answer for specific problems, that we will face in the future: overpopulation, shortage of resources, demographic change, etc. At the same time more people than ever will live in cities. This creates huge difficulties for governmental institutions on the one side, but also profit promising opportunities for companies on the other. This thesis will have a close look at this tension and unpack the vision of the smart cities, as they are created with the help of integrators and service companies. Through the lens of Critical Design, it will result in a fictional artifact to trigger the imagination and a debate about a possible future in which corporate interests changed the relationship between the city and its citizens. Student thesisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesistexthttp://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23967Local 21483application/pdfinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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topic Smart Cities
Critical Design
Design Fiction
Urban Interaction Design
Engineering and Technology
Teknik och teknologier
spellingShingle Smart Cities
Critical Design
Design Fiction
Urban Interaction Design
Engineering and Technology
Teknik och teknologier
Bücker, Dennis
Corporatization and Smart Cities: Creating a debate about economic interests in future urban infrastructure
description Smart cities are seen as the answer for specific problems, that we will face in the future: overpopulation, shortage of resources, demographic change, etc. At the same time more people than ever will live in cities. This creates huge difficulties for governmental institutions on the one side, but also profit promising opportunities for companies on the other. This thesis will have a close look at this tension and unpack the vision of the smart cities, as they are created with the help of integrators and service companies. Through the lens of Critical Design, it will result in a fictional artifact to trigger the imagination and a debate about a possible future in which corporate interests changed the relationship between the city and its citizens.
author Bücker, Dennis
author_facet Bücker, Dennis
author_sort Bücker, Dennis
title Corporatization and Smart Cities: Creating a debate about economic interests in future urban infrastructure
title_short Corporatization and Smart Cities: Creating a debate about economic interests in future urban infrastructure
title_full Corporatization and Smart Cities: Creating a debate about economic interests in future urban infrastructure
title_fullStr Corporatization and Smart Cities: Creating a debate about economic interests in future urban infrastructure
title_full_unstemmed Corporatization and Smart Cities: Creating a debate about economic interests in future urban infrastructure
title_sort corporatization and smart cities: creating a debate about economic interests in future urban infrastructure
publisher Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)
publishDate 2016
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