Digital democracy provides a new space for community involvement in democratic life. This
study aims to conduct a systematic literature review to uncover the trend of concepts in the …

New municipalism is a nascent global social movement aiming to democratically transform
the local state and economy–but what, precisely, is so new about it? I situate new …

Smart cities refer to place-specific collaborative systems where multiple actors collaborate to
collectively address public problems. However, smart city initiatives regularly frame citizens …

As new municipalism comes of age, prefixes proliferate: from democratic and autonomist to
post-growth and care municipalisms. How do all these variegations relate to each other and …

Smart urbanism has, over the last decade or so, grown to become a major research area
within the social science of cities and digital technology. This critical commentary aims to …

This article considers the potential of public–common partnerships (PCPs) to act as a new
municipalist intervention against the privatisation and financialisation of land in the UK. In …

Smart city initiatives in Latin America aim to harness information and communication
technologies to make urban service provision and management more efficient, transparent …

We introduce key concepts that have guided the diverse case studies of this special issue on
smart cities. Calling into question Global North conceptions of the smart city, nine different …

We explore smart city development, with a focus on the modalities of citizen participation,
using an institutional logics approach. Taking Mexico City as our case study, we describe …

The smart city is the most emblematic contemporary expression of the fusion of urbanism
and digital technologies. Critical urban scholars are now increasingly likely to highlight the …