Print Email Facebook Twitter The Smart City as Global Discourse Title The Smart City as Global Discourse: Storylines and Critical Junctures across 27 Cities Author Joss, Simon (University of Glasgow) Sengers, Frans (Universiteit Utrecht) Schraven, D.F.J. (TU Delft Integral Design & Management) Caprotti, Federico (University of Exeter) Dayot, Youri (Université Grenoble Alpes) Date 2019 Abstract Despite its growing ubiquitous presence, the smart city continues to struggle for definitional clarity and practical import. In response, this study interrogates the smart city as global discourse network by examining a collection of key texts associated with cities worldwide. Using a list of 5,553 cities, a systematic webometric exercise was conducted to measure hit counts produced by searching for “smart city.” Consequently, 27 cities with the highest validated hit counts were selected. Next, 346 online texts were collected from among the top 20 hits across each of the selected cities, and analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively using AntConc software. The findings confirm, first, the presence of a strong globalizing narrative which emphasizes world cities as “best practice” models. Second, they reveal the smart city’s association—beyond the quest for incremental, technical improvements of current urban systems and processes—with a pronounced transformative governance agenda. The article identifies five critical junctures at the heart of the evolving smart city discourse regime; these shed light on the ongoing boundary work in which the smart city is engaged and which contain significant unresolved tensions. The paper concludes with a discussion of resulting implications for research, policy, and practice. Subject discourseglobalgovernanceSmart citywebometrics To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1957c534-5ac2-4c5a-86c9-4970a3cc0d93 DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2018.1558387 ISSN 1063-0732 Source Journal of Urban Technology, 26 (1), 3-34 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2019 Simon Joss, Frans Sengers, D.F.J. Schraven, Federico Caprotti, Youri Dayot Files PDF 4_4_2019_The_Smart_.pdf 3.17 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:1957c534-5ac2-4c5a-86c9-4970a3cc0d93/datastream/OBJ/view