The contextualization of smart city technologies: An international comparison

In smart city practice, urban policymakers show to focus foremost on the technologies sec. This often leads quite uniform, technocratic and corporate-led ways of handling issues. contrast, more attention should be paid question appropriateness technologies. entails that uniform issues in different contexts ask for distinctive approaches as a consequence, specific other words, context plays decisive role choice themselves ‘solve’ or govern these, study examines with help three projects: Hangzhou City Brain (China), Singapore Smart Nation, Amsterdam (the Netherlands). The results reveal contextual factors influence developments application therein includes: technology-driven management approach fixing Hangzhou's traffic congestion; mixed platform-oriented effecting transformation Singapore's government services, businesses living; platform-oriented, open-minded mechanism improve Amsterdam's livability economic prosperity. paper concludes rather than treating technology itself smart, real smartness cities is develop implement appropriate according its local solve targeted