3 SMART CITY TECHNOLOGIES

Dominant smart city conceptualizations position digital innovation and ICTs as central to urban development and administration. “Smartness” is framed as generated by technologies installed and implemented, and to some extent by how they're used and by whom. Smart city exceptionalism is understood through the simple assertion that if cities incorporate ICTs and data analytics, their performance will be improved. Through contemporary computing trends such as big data, cloud computing, and IoT, smart city master plans integrate information about urban activities to present cities as holistic, pervasive computing systems where all observable interactions and exchanges are monitored and connected.