Kitchin, Rob
(2017)
The timescape of smart cities: The Programmable City Working Paper 35.
Working Paper.
The Programmable City Working Paper.
Abstract
To date, critical examinations of smart cities have largely ignored their temporality. In this paper I consider smart cities from a temporal perspective arguing that they produce a new timescape and constitute space-time machines. The first half of the paper examines temporal relations and rhythms, exploring how smart cities are the products of and contribute to space-time compression, create new urban polyrhythms, alter the practices of scheduling, and change the pace and tempos of everyday activities. The second half of the paper details how smart cities shape the nature of temporal modalities, considering how they reframe and utilise the relationship between the past, present and future. The analysis draws from a set of 43 interviews conducted in Dublin, Ireland, and highlights that much of the power of smart urbanism is derived from how it produces a new timescape, rather than simply reconfiguring spatial relations.
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Monograph
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Published as an open access pre-print on SocArXiv: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/y4e8p. Published under a CC-By Attribution 4.0 International License.
The research for this paper has been conducted under the Programmable City project, funded by a European Research Council Advanced Investigator award (ERC-2012-AdG-323636-SOFTCITY). Many thanks to Claudio Coletta for comments on an earlier draft of this paper. |
| Keywords: |
time; timescape; temporality; space-time; smart cities; rhythm; pace; tempo; scheduling; real-time; past; present; future; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > National Institute for Regional and Spatial analysis, NIRSA |
| Item ID: |
9237 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/Y4E8P |
| Depositing User: |
Prof. Rob Kitchin
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| Date Deposited: |
09 Feb 2018 17:04 |
| Publisher: |
The Programmable City Working Paper |
| Funders: |
European Research Council Advanced Investigator Award |
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This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available
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