Abstract
How does the distance between the development and adoption of technology determine its affordance? By referring to the sociomateriality literature, I discuss why the corporate-driven push of technologies into smart cities can lead to ineffective outcomes. This review paper then argues that technologies should be locally built, with a stronger connect between the humans in cities and the technologies being developed and implemented, in order to achieve technological affordance. Finally, I identify a number of research avenues to understand technology-human connect in smart cities.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 120087 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Technological Forecasting and Social Change |
| Volume | 157 |
| Early online date | 7 May 2020 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Aug 2020 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
Keywords
- Human agency
- Smart city
- Sociomateriality
- Structuration
- Technology
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