01740nam a22001577a 4500 528118 528118 241113b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Zwick, Austin and Spicer, Zachary 59499 Examining the smart city generational model: Conceptualizations, implementations, and infrastructure Canada’s smart city challenge Urban Affairs Review 60(4), Jul, 2024: p.1229-1253 Cohen's Smart City Generational model has been the basis of understanding for the evolution of the Smart Cities movement. However, how does this model align with practitioners’ conceptualization of the term? Our research focuses on Infrastructure Canada's Smart City Challenge (SCC). Through 14 primary interviews and 20 finalist applications, this research reveals that practitioners overwhelmingly understand Smart City building as a government-driven, data-centric endeavor (Smart City 2.0), as opposed to being about vendor transactions (Smart City 1.0), resident engagement (Smart City 3.0), or community co-creation (Smart City 4.0), where the specific technology is of secondary importance to project objectives. We conclude that, rather than moving through distinct generations, the smart cities movement should be understood as a gradual process of municipal public administration modernization as local governments are becoming increasingly savvy and experienced about contracting with technology firms to address urban problems.-Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10780874231222243 Smart cities, Municipal government, Generational modal , Urban technology, Engagement. 48675 Urban Affairs Review URBAN DEVELOPMENT AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 403197 IIPA IIPA 2024-11-13 60(4), Jul, 2024: p.1229-1253 AR133545 2024-11-13 AR