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100			_aColding, Johan _957566
245			_aSmart city model: A new panacea for urban sustainability or unmanageable complexity/
260			_bSage, _c2020.
300			_aVol. 47, Issue 1, 2020, ( 179–187p.)
520			_aDespite several calls in this journal of debating the rapid growth of the literature on “smart cities”, such a debate has in large been absent. Smart cities are often un-critically launched as a sustainable way of developing cities. When cities become increasingly complex as its features are wired into the Internet, theories for their understanding is lagging behind. As it is prospected that a greater number of people and things will become connected by Information and Computer Technology, the complexity of urban systems will over time increase. Historical insights reveal that as complexity in societies increase, growth in energy consumption tends to follow. In this paper, we discuss whether complexity carried too far could lead to diminishing returns of energy saving and create unmanageable urban systems. As part of initiating such a debate, this commentary asks whether the smart cities development has a bearing on the issue whether a society can erode its capacity of sustaining itself? We pose this question against the backdrop that no one actually knows what type of society the smart cities model in the end will generate.
700			_aColding, Magnus _957567
700			_aBarthel, Stephan _957568
773	0		_08876 _917104 _dLondon Pion Ltd. 2010 _tEnvironment and planning B: planning and design (Urban Analytics and City Science) _x1472-3417
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/2399808318763164
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