Bibliography: Smart Cities and Digital Infrastructure

The following is a selection of research relating to smart cities and digital infrastructure, in the context of Singapore. Key topics include smart city discourses, the use of big data, responses to COVID-19, and digital governance.

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You can find our full list of works relating to Singapore internet studies here.

Albino, V., Berardi, U., & Dangelico, R. M. (2015). Smart Cities: Definitions, Dimensions, Performance, and Initiatives. Journal of Urban Technology, 22(1), 3–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2014.942092

Angelidou, M. (2017). The Role of Smart City Characteristics in the Plans of Fifteen Cities. Journal of Urban Technology, 24(4), 3–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2017.1348880

Bhati, A., Hansen, M., & Chan, C. M. (2017). Energy conservation through smart homes in a smart city: A lesson for Singapore households. Energy Policy, 104, 230–239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2017.01.032

Calder, K. E. (2016). Singapore: Smart City, Smart State. Brookings Institution Press.

Cavada, M., Tight, M. R., & Rogers, C. D. F. (2019). 14—A smart city case study of Singapore—Is Singapore truly smart? In L. Anthopoulos (Ed.), Smart City Emergence (pp. 295–314). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-816169-2.00014-6

Chang, F., & Das, D. (2020). Smart Nation Singapore: Developing Policies for a Citizen-Oriented Smart City Initiative. In D. Kundu, R. Sietchiping, & M. Kinyanjui (Eds.), Developing National Urban Policies: Ways Forward to Green and Smart Cities (pp. 425–440). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3738-7_18

Cugurullo, F. (2018). The origin of the smart city imaginary: From the dawn of modernity to the eclipse of reason. In The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries. Routledge.

Das, D., & Zhang, J. J. (2021). Pandemic in a smart city: Singapore’s COVID-19 management through technology & society. Urban Geography, 42(3), 408–416. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1807168

Fredericks, J. (2020). From Smart City to Smart Engagement: Exploring Digital and Physical Interactions for Playful City-Making. In A. Nijholt (Ed.), Making Smart Cities More Playable: Exploring Playable Cities (pp. 107–128). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9765-3_6

Ho, E. (2017). Smart subjects for a Smart Nation? Governing (smart)mentalities in Singapore. Urban Studies, 54(13), 3101–3118. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098016664305

Hoe, S. L. (2016). Defining a smart nation: The case of Singapore. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 14(4), 323–333. https://doi.org/10.1108/JICES-02-2016-0005

Huseien, G. F., & Shah, K. W. (2021). Potential Applications of 5G Network Technology for Climate Change Control: A Scoping Review of Singapore. Sustainability, 13(17), 9720. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13179720

Johnston, K. (2019). A Comparison of Two Smart Cities: Singapore & Atlanta. Journal of Comparative Urban Law and Policy, 3(1), 191–207.

Joo, Y.-M. (2021). Developmentalist smart cities? The cases of Singapore and Seoul. International Journal of Urban Sciences, 0(0), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/12265934.2021.1925143

Lee, T., & Lee, H. (2020). Tracing surveillance and auto-regulation in Singapore: ‘Smart’ responses to COVID-19. Media International Australia, 177(1), 47–60. https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X20949545

Niculescu, A. I., & Wadhwa, B. (2015). Smart cities in South East Asia: Singapore concepts - an HCI4D perspective. Proceedings of the ASEAN CHI Symposium’15, 20–23. https://doi.org/10.1145/2776888.2780362

Ojo, A., Curry, E., Janowski, T., & Dzhusupova, Z. (2015). Designing Next Generation Smart City Initiatives: The SCID Framework. In M. P. Rodríguez-Bolívar (Ed.), Transforming City Governments for Successful Smart Cities (pp. 43–67). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03167-5_4

Söderström, O. (2021). The three modes of existence of the pandemic smart city. Urban Geography, 42(3), 399–407. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1807167

Vanolo, A. (2014). Smartmentality: The Smart City as Disciplinary Strategy. Urban Studies, 51(5), 883–898. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098013494427

Woods, O. (2020). Subverting the logics of “smartness” in Singapore: Smart eldercare and parallel regimes of sustainability. Sustainable Cities and Society, 53, 101940. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2019.101940

Zubizarreta, I., Seravalli, A., & Arrizabalaga, S. (2016). Smart City Concept: What It Is and What It Should Be. Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 142(1), 04015005. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000282