18 Feb ‘Comparing Smart City-Regional Governance Strategies in Bristol, Glasgow, Barcelona & Bilbao’ at the Oxford City Debates, University of Oxford, Future of Cities (UK) (Feb 18-19)

‘Smart city’ has already become a ‘fetish’ term to simplify complex urban debates in an uneven techno-deterministically-driven hyper-connected society. This paper compares strategically and ethnographically four specific city-region cases located in two European nation-states: Bristol and Glasgow in the UK, and Bilbao and Barcelona in...