Discourses and practices of the smart city in Central Eastern Europe: insights from Hungary's 'big' cities
In: Urban research & practice: journal of the European Urban Research Association, Band 15, Heft 5, S. 699-723
ISSN: 1753-5077
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In: Urban research & practice: journal of the European Urban Research Association, Band 15, Heft 5, S. 699-723
ISSN: 1753-5077
This paper aims at expanding the scope of the dominantly pragmatic, local scale-oriented smart village scholarship towards a perspective that recognizes that smart village development is a multiscalar political process. To show the necessity of this move, the shaping of smart village policies and practices in Hungary is examined through a qualitative lens. As the authors argue, path-dependent structural obstacles and interscalar relations undermine the prospects of smart village building in the sense of bottom-up integrated rural development, and there is a risk of a bias towards technological innovation. This exploratory article, using Hungary as a case study, argues that smart village scholarship should draw on the results of critical smart city scholarship to acquire in-depth understanding of current debates regarding potential smart village developments.
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In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Band 147, S. 107352
ISSN: 0264-8377