Project Summary:
The Toronto portion of this seven-city study focuses on interviews with policymakers, industry actors and civil-society organizations.
Project Description:
The project is a seven-city examination of smart city initiatives: Toronto, Calgary, Stockholm, Barcelona, Singapore, Taipei, and Seoul. It seeks to explore: the objectives of smart city initiatives, as well as their initiators, social coordination logics, modes of legitimization and scales at which they are organized. Insights will provide valuable guidance for future smart city initiatives, helping to identify conditions under which such initiatives foster more open, participatory, just, and sustainable forms of urban development. The primary research question asks, can embedding information and communications technologies (ICTs) in the urban fabric help solve cities’ intricate problems and improve wellbeing? This research focuses on the Toronto portion of the project.
Project Type:
Funded
Project Role:
Co-applicant
Country 1:
Canada
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Funder:
SSHRC Partnership Development Grant
Year Project Started:
2020
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(e.g type 1000 for 1,000)
