The document discusses smart cities and focuses on Barcelona, Singapore, Dubai, and Shenzhen as examples. It highlights quotes about how cities reinforce behaviors and how inhabitants define a city's identity. It questions where lonely, unhappy, or unwell people are in idealized smart city neighborhoods and who may be excluded. It asks how exclusion could be reversed and where public spaces are. The document raises concerns about potential side effects like mass tourism or tourism-phobia in smart cities.

1. Smart cities
Ana Brambilla
April, 2019

2. “A city usually reinforces and
supports the actions of its
people, suggesting possible
behaviors and actions
according to the place lived.”
Luli Radfahrer, 2017

3. https://youtu.be/THiQtn9hVB8?t=118
Barcelona
Singapour
Dubai
Barcelona
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bANfnYDTzxE

4. Shenzen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydPqKhgh9Mg
Chinese Surveillance System
& Facial Recognition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doqg1eCQieo
Gait-Recognition
https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=0W7VazkbC8A

5. “No matter how efficient and/or
durable their buildings and
infrastructure may be, it is their
inhabitants who make its true
identity.”
Luli Radfahrer
Communication Building City Identities:
Communication as a Key Enabler for
Dynamic Urbanism in Smart City
Environments, 2017

6. Where, in these idealized neighborhoods,
are the lonely, the unhappy, the unwell?
Luli
Osmosis, season 1, ep. 3
20’10” https://www.netflix.com/watch/80190333?trackId=200257859
https://government.ae/en/about-the-uae/the-uae-government/govern
ment-of-future/happiness

7. Who is excluded? Why? How to reverse it?
Where are the public arenas? (Non-places?)
What are the side effects? (Mass tourism? Tourism-phobia?)
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