From smart to empathic cities

Biloria, N

From smart to empathic cities

Biloria, N

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Publisher:: Elsevier BV
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2020
Issue Date:: 2020-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Biloria, N https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3152-5187
dc.date.accessioned	2020-12-17T07:55:06Z
dc.date.available	2020-12-17T07:55:06Z
dc.date.issued	2020-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2020
dc.identifier.issn	2095-2635
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/144811
dc.description.abstract	© 2020 The Author This paper acknowledges the contemporary neoliberal mode of operation of Smart Cities. The pitfalls of Smart Cities concerning its propensity towards techno-centric and efficiency-focused governance are identified, with diminutive emphasis on social equity and human-centric urban growth. Thus, the paper elaborates upon an alternative mode of person-environment-interaction based approach towards placemaking: Empathic Cities. This approach implies embracing a shift from efficiency to sufficiency and wellbeing embedded regenerative perspective for conceiving the built environment. First, the variable dimensions of urban growth and governance, which gave rise to the smart city, are contextualized. The embedded neoliberal operational agenda of smart cities are established. On this basis, the underpinnings of an empathic city are established by acknowledging the shift from techno-centric to human-centric and from product-based to context-based smart city and wellbeing perspectives. Strategies toward urban development are proposed, such as embracing a regenerative perspective wherein the city and its constituents need to be understood as interdependent systemic elements while embracing a human-centric and ethical approach. Additionally, a transition from efficiency to sufficiency-oriented practices and a shift towards inclusive modes of participatory governance are proposed as fundamental principles for an empathic future of the built environment.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Elsevier BV
dc.relation.ispartof	Frontiers of Architectural Research
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.foar.2020.10.001
dc.rights	Elsevier required licence: © 2020 . This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. The definitive publisher version is available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foar.2020.10.001	en_US
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject	1201 Architecture, 1202 Building, 1205 Urban and Regional Planning
dc.title	From smart to empathic cities
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.for	1201 Architecture
utslib.for	1202 Building
utslib.for	1205 Urban and Regional Planning
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Architecture
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
utslib.copyright.status	open_access	*
dc.date.updated	2020-12-17T07:54:58Z
pubs.publication-status	Published

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© 2020 The Author This paper acknowledges the contemporary neoliberal mode of operation of Smart Cities. The pitfalls of Smart Cities concerning its propensity towards techno-centric and efficiency-focused governance are identified, with diminutive emphasis on social equity and human-centric urban growth. Thus, the paper elaborates upon an alternative mode of person-environment-interaction based approach towards placemaking: Empathic Cities. This approach implies embracing a shift from efficiency to sufficiency and wellbeing embedded regenerative perspective for conceiving the built environment. First, the variable dimensions of urban growth and governance, which gave rise to the smart city, are contextualized. The embedded neoliberal operational agenda of smart cities are established. On this basis, the underpinnings of an empathic city are established by acknowledging the shift from techno-centric to human-centric and from product-based to context-based smart city and wellbeing perspectives. Strategies toward urban development are proposed, such as embracing a regenerative perspective wherein the city and its constituents need to be understood as interdependent systemic elements while embracing a human-centric and ethical approach. Additionally, a transition from efficiency to sufficiency-oriented practices and a shift towards inclusive modes of participatory governance are proposed as fundamental principles for an empathic future of the built environment.

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