Log in

Create a user profile using your existing professional profile on LinkedIn, Academia, or ResearchGate.


Alternatively, register a username and password to start an account.


By creating an account you will be able to contribute articles, engage in discussion groups, network with fellow professionals and businesses, and receive interest-related alerts.

Forgot Password

Please enter your email address below and you will receive a temporary link to re-activate your account

Disrupted Urbanism

Situated Smart Initiatives in African Cities

Article image

Nancy Odendaal

16 January 2024

English

uKESA Librarian 2

Book

Africa

The smart city discourse tends to ignore the cultural and spatial characteristics that define African cities. This book titled Disrupted Urbanism: Situated Smart Initiatives in African Cities explores the notion of technology disruption through discussion of a series of urban practises in Sierra Leone, Kenya, Uganda, Zanzibar and South Africa that use digital platforms to address socio-spatial challenges. Four themes are focused upon here: mobility, food security, social mobilisation and public culture. By considering how the appropriation of digital platforms potentially enables more inclusive and efficient cities, the book engages debates on African urbanism and platform urbanism through a relational lens. The book concludes on situated smart initiatives in these five countries by surfacing the dimensions of the current socio-technical evolutions of African cities. Central to the relationship between material and human agency are flow and connection, as well as the functioning of trust and continuity in enabling these dynamics. The digitisation of city processes raises tensions between traditional governance frames and emerging regimes, and the hybrid nature of the African ‘smart city’.

 

Abstract based directly on source.

Downloads

Website References

Africa

Built environment

Cities

Construction

Culture

Digital access

Governance

Human settlements

ICT

Kenya

Livelihoods

Policy

Sierra Leone

Smart Cities

Social development

South Africa

Spatial development

Stakeholder engagement

Sustainability

Tanzania

Technology and innovation

Uganda

Urban

Urbanisation

View Contributors:

Comments

No comments available
LOAD MORE