First of all, last week an email tragedy of Greek proportions took place. I wrote an unusually long post and decided it wasn’t actually fit for email reading and decided to make it a web-only. I then created a truncated version of that longer post meant to be sent out to you. However, I forgot to mark the first one as ‘web-only’ in my dashboard. Thus, my good intentions lead to your inbox hell. My apologies.
Secondly, I have a bunch of things on my plate this week, so I’m only sending out this podcast, in which I reworked two earlier pieces about the sustainability and equitability of smart cities. If you hadn’t read them yet, or if you want a refresher with the sound of my refreshing voice, click on the link or download it in your podcast app of choice! (I experienced some technical difficulties, so the recording quality is a bit uneven, but after the first few minutes, it should be smooth sailing!)
By the way, I’m working on a follow-up piece about the sustainability of smart cities for a new journal, I’ll keep you posted about that. Also, there is a backlog of ‘smart energy’ things I’d like to work on, which I will propose to you shortly. Finally, my unusually long post from last week was actually a compendium of things that cities can do to increase public participation in energy matters, regardless of whether they’re smart or not. Find the link below.
For now, I wish thee well.
Marten
Links
Energy democracy (in cities and beyond):
https://sociallifeofenergy.substack.com/p/what-is-our-toolkit-for-sustainable.
The two earlier pieces on smart sustainable cities:
https://sociallifeofenergy.substack.com/p/smart-sustainable-cities-pathway
https://sociallifeofenergy.substack.com/p/public-participation-in-really-existing
My brother’s ukelele YouTube channel 😀
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-20VdWHdZgBX0cGLRQqykg
Sources cited in this podcast:
Ahvenniemi, Hannele, Aapo Huovila, Isabel Pinto-Seppä, and Miimu Airaksinen. 2017. "What are the differences between sustainable and smart cities?" Cities. 60: 234-245. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2016.09.009
Bulkeley, Harriet, Pauline M McGuirk, and Robyn Dowling. 2016. "Making a smart city for the smart grid? The urban material politics of actualising smart electricity networks". Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. 48 (9): 1709-1726. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X16648152
Cowley, Robert, Simon Joss, and Youri Dayot. 2018. "The smart city and its publics: insights from across six UK cities". Urban Research & Practice. 11 (1): 53-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2017.1293150 (Open Access)
Hollands R.G. 2015. "Critical interventions into the corporate smart city". Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. 8 (1): 61-77. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsu011 (Open Access)
Martin C.J., Evans J., and Karvonen A. 2018. "Smart and sustainable? Five tensions in the visions and practices of the smart-sustainable city in Europe and North America". Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 133: 269-278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2018.01.005
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