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“Smart cities must go beyond technology to embrace social and spatial justice.” Comment.

  • 15 marks
  • Settlements

The statement rests on a defensible but contestable premise: that the smart-city project, left to itself, delivers efficiency and data capability while leaving the distributional questions of who gets the city and where undone. Edward Soja, in Seeking Spatial Justice (2010), argues that spatiality is not the outcome of justice but a medium through which…

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  • The Smart City Paradigm in India: what it actually delivered
  • Why Social and Spatial Justice Must Be Central
  • 1. Justice is the condition for a genuinely smart city
  • 2. Exclusionary planning by design
  • 3. The digital divide recreates spatial exclusion
  • 4. Gentrification and land alienation
  • …and 5 more sections, with a conclusion

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