Taking a hard look at the smart city requires that we ask not only where it might fail to live up to the promises of its boosters, but also where it is successful and how it might nonetheless still fail us as citizens and as human beings.
There seems to be little agreement on what it is that needs sustaining, let alone how we should go about it in practice.
“Risk is a very ambivalent concept.”
It wasn’t until the 1960s that the idiom of cultural pluralism became a positive program in its own right.