Research & Publications - Cities and digital technology Chair
Cities undergo transformations whose significance and impacts are not yet well perceived. « The smart city driven by digital technology, is poised to replace the typical networked city of the industrial era, whose success was built on its hard infrastructure, from roads to water supply and sanitation systems, not only as a technological optimum but also as a social and political project » (Antoine Picon, Smart cities, Wiley, 2015). The development of digital technologies into cities changes individual and collective practices, transform coordination, business models and lead to the introduction of new stakeholders into urban policies. How do these evolutions question urban policies and transform urban governance?
Based on comparative analysis, the Chair aims to question the impact of digital technologies on urban governance, following four main axes:
- Politics of urban data
- New stakeholders of urban policies (IT companies, platforms, etc.)
- The cities’ strategies and their diverse modes of governance
- The interaction between digital and territories (representation, infrastructure, socio-spatial inequalities, urban/rural relationship, etc.)
At the intersection of these axes and through case studies, the Chair aims to produce a cartography that represents the various meanings of digital cities and their socio-political issues to highlight the transformation of urban governance.
Working papers
- N°06/2020: Le développement logistique des métropoles : des enjeux de régulation exacerbés par le numérique by Nicolas Raimbault
- N°05/2020 : Les Smart Cities : un gouvernement par la performance à l’échelle locale ? by Myrtille Picaud
- N°04/2020 : Les plateformes de modélisation urbaine : des instruments aux finalités variées by Aubin Dodard
- N°03/2020 : Faire la smart city dans une ville moyenne française : De la numérisation des services publics à l’attractivité territoriale, les trajectoires entrepreneuriales de Béthune et Nevers by Maxime Vincent
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N°02/2020 : The Impact of Digital Firms on Urban Governance Model in China: An Empirical Analysis of the Smart City Brain Model in China by Sixiao Yang
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N°01/2020 : Produire des données de prix et de loyers à l’heure de la PropTech : Quel rôle pour l’État ? by Claire Juillard
- N°05/2019 : Rendre « intelligentes » les caméras déplacement du travail des opérateurs devidéosurveillance et redéfinition du soupçon by Florent Castagnino
- N°04/2019: Territoires numériques et transition énergétique : les limites de la croissance by Cécile Diguet & Fanny Lopez
- N°03/2019: Quand le capteur leur donne la parole : la (difficile) représentation des usagers par le big data dans l’aménagement urbain by Antoine Courmont & Nicolas Rio
- N°02/2019: La fabrique publique de la smart city parisienne by Ornella Zaza
- N°01/2019: Beneath the surface of the Safe City: surveillance in the times of Chinese supremacy? par Alvaro Artigas
- N°02/2018: "Où est passée la smart city ?" Firmes de l’économie numérique et gouvernement urbain by Antoine Courmont
- N°01/2018: The value of data : An analysis of closed-urban-data-based and open-data-based business models by Bruno Carballa Smichowski
Conferences
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Conference on 4 April 2019 : Data, platforms and cities
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Conference on 3 May 2018 : Platforms and territories :
See the programme
Review the Session 3: Urban governance and Platforms regulation (FR and EN)
Review the Round-Table: transversal regards on the platforms and territories (FR)
STUDENT's WORKS
- N°01/2019 : Les civic tech : nouveaux acteurs du marché de la participation territoriale ? (FR) by Margaux Barlet, Mathieu Le Gall, Rubens Lexpert-Jamakortzian and Ophélie Tainguy