From ‘smart city’ to wise city? Thinking with ecology, water, and hydrocitizenship

Jones, O (2024) 'From ‘smart city’ to wise city? Thinking with ecology, water, and hydrocitizenship.' In: Heitlinger, S, Foth, M and Clarke, R, eds. Designing more-than-human smart cities: beyond sustainability, towards cohabitation. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 37-54. ISBN 9780192884169

Abstract

This chapter seeks to explore a number of questions relating to smart city thinking and water. It points out that cities in ecological and in many more specific ways are ‘stupid spaces’, rife with a whole range of systemic shortcomings. The obvious attraction of smart technologies is the hope of addressing at least some of those shortcomings. But for cities to be wise, rather than smart, and deeper, an ecological view of sustainability is required. This will require pushing ideas of smartness, or wisdom, to embrace the non-human, ecological and the underpinning elemental flows of water which sustain all life.

Item Type:	Book Chapter or Section
Keywords:	water, cities, modernity, smart-city, wise-city, ecology
Divisions:	School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities
Date Deposited:	17 Sep 2024 15:22
Last Modified:	17 Sep 2024 15:22
URI / Page ID:	https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/16480

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