Ola Söderström

TL;DR: The authors analyzes IBM's smart city campaign and finds it to be storytelling, aimed at making the company an "obligatory passage point" in the implementation of urban technologies, and argues that IBM's influential story about smart cities is far from novel but rather mobilizes and revisits two long-standing tropes: systems thinking and utopianism.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline steps towards an alternative smart urbanism and move beyond the specific to the general and do so by drawing on radically different initiatives across the Global North and South.

TL;DR: The authors found that direct observation, far from being a mere ragpicker, is an explo ration by the form-seeking and form-imposing mind, which needs to understand but cannot unless it casts what it...

TL;DR: In this article, the internal logics and dynamics of software-mediated techniques used to regulate and manage urban systems are explored, drawing upon Michel Foucault's approach to power and governmentality.

TL;DR: A special issue as discussed by the authors addresses the questions of gentrification and new-build gentrification, two processes of urban transformation that significantly contribute to the reconfiguration of the socio-demographic profile of populations in contemporary cities.