1. Smart city place-based outcomes in India: bubble urbanism and socio-spatial fragmentation.
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Prasad, Deepti, Alizadeh, Tooran, and Dowling, Robyn
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SMART cities ,URBAN growth ,DEVELOPING countries - Abstract
Despite the bourgeoning of smart city initiatives across the Global South, their implementation and place-based outcomes remain understudied. This paper presents empirical studies in three Indian cities of Bhubaneswar, Pune and Chennai; three of the first 20 smart cities prioritized for implementation in the Smart Cities Mission. It investigates the place-based outcomes utilized to create smart cities under three categories of mega-, placemaking, and lighthouse projects. The results show varying levels of urban interventions contributing to 'bubble urbanism' – a fragmented combination of large-scale mega-projects and small-scale revitalization projects – with complex socio-spatial implications for smart city development in India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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