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Alan Wiig
Researcher at University of Massachusetts Boston
Publications - 21
Citations - 1564
Alan Wiig is an academic researcher from University of Massachusetts Boston. The author has contributed to research in topics: Smart city & Urbanism. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 18 publications receiving 1183 citations. Previous affiliations of Alan Wiig include Temple University & University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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The 'Actually Existing Smart City'
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the critique of the smart city in its historical and geographical context should be paid to the actually existing smart city, rather than the exceptional or paradigmatic smart cities of Songdo, Masdar and Living PlanIT Valley.
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The ‘actually existing smart city’
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the critique of the smart city in its historical and geographical context should be paid to the actually existing smart city, rather than the exceptional or paradigmatic smart cities of Songdo, Masdar and Living PlanIT Valley.
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IBM's smart city as techno-utopian policy mobility
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore IBM's Smarter Cities Challenge as an example of global smart city policymaking, and present a case study of Philadelphia's online workforce education initiative, Digital On-Ramps.
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The empty rhetoric of the smart city: from digital inclusion to economic promotion in Philadelphia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a case study of the Digital On-Ramps initiative that emerged from IBM's policy-consultation in Philadelphia and propose a social media-style workforce education application (app) to train up to 500,000 low-literacy residents for jobs in the information and knowledge economy.
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Introduction: Thinking through the politics of the smart city
Alan Wiig,Elvin Wyly +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the same computer we deploy to understand our cities has become a new type of city: a new kind of city where computers have been used to understand cities for four decades.