Making a smart city for the smart grid? The urban material politics of actualising smart electricity networks

摘要: In a growing debate about the smart city, considerations of ways in which urban infrastructures and their materialities are being reconfigured contested remain shadows analyses have been primarily concerned with management flow digitalisation big data pursuit new logics for economic growth. this paper, we examine ‘smart city’ is put to work different ends through means. We argue that co-constitution as site carbon governance place where energy systems developed leading novel forms governmental intervention operating at conjunction grid city. seek move beyond examining rationales discourses such interventions engage they actualised particular conditions order draw attention material politics. so doing, not mere backdrop transitions electricity provision use but central its politics, while also critical should understand politics urbanism.