Last year (2016), Tim Schwanen, James Palmer and I put together a lecture series around the topic of "Urban Mobilities in the Smart City", hosted at the Transport Studies Unit (TSU) at Oxford University.
It was a great experience and I learned a lot from the speakers but also from the process of co-organizing the event. I would like to share here four papers that I've read back then and that I would recommend to anyone who wants to start a research on smart cities. These are quite influential papers so some of you might have read them already. Also, feel free to suggest in the comments some other publications you think have strongly contributed to the literature.
- Caragliu, A., Del Bo, C., Nijkamp, P. (2011). Smart cities in Europe. Journal of urban technology, 18(2), 65-82.
- Kitchin, R. (2014). The real-time city? Big data and smart urbanism. GeoJournal, 79(1), 1-14.
- Luque-Ayala, A., Marvin, S. (2015). Developing a critical understanding of smart urbanism?. Urban Studies, 52(12), 2105-2116.
- Kitchin, R. (2015). Making sense of smart cities: addressing present shortcomings. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 8(1), 131-136.
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