%0 Journal Article
%T From the ˇ°smart cityˇ± to the ˇ°smart metropolisˇ±? Building resilience in the urban periphery
%A Jean-Paul D Addie
%A Margarita Angelidou
%A Stefano de Falco
%J European Urban and Regional Studies
%@ 1461-7145
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0969776418783813
%X The ˇ°smart cityˇ± has risen to global prominence over the past two decades as an urban planning and development strategy. As a broad but contested toolkit of technological services and policy interventions aimed at improving the efficacy and efficiency of urban systems, the ˇ°smart cityˇ± is subject to several pressing critiques. This paper acknowledges these concerns, but recognizes the potential of ˇ°urban intelligenceˇ± to enhance the resiliency of metropolitan areas. As such, we focus on an under-researched dimension of smart city urbanism: its application in peripheral urban areas. The paper introduces a threefold typology of: (a) geographic (spatial); (b) hard (material); and (c) soft (social) urban peripherality. Second, it reviews the concept of urban resilience and considers how its central characteristics can inform the objectives and implementation of ˇ°smart cityˇ± infrastructures and planning. Six European smart city plans are assessed via a qualitative content analysis, to identify the target of smart city actions; the characteristics of urban resilience mobilized; and the spatial focus of planned interventions. The comparative analysis reveals a variegated set of smart-city approaches. Notably, ˇ°smartˇ± actions aimed at enhancing social innovation are the most common type of intervention, while overall there remains a strong tendency for smart urbanism to focus on the urban core. We conclude by calling for a research agenda addressing smartness in, of, and for, peripheral urban spaces and communities
%K Comparative urbanism
%K peripheral urbanization
%K smart urbanism
%K urban infrastructure
%K urban and spatial planning
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0969776418783813