Smart City Experimentation in Urban Mobility: Exploring the Politics of Futuring in Hamburg

Philipp Späth; Jörg Knieling

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-27155-8_8

Smart City Experimentation in Urban Mobility: Exploring the Politics of Futuring in Hamburg

Urban Planning and Regional Development

Abstract

This chapter explores how a Smart City agenda has influenced attitudes towards the future in contemporary mobility planning in Hamburg. By comparing three recent frameworks of transportation planning, we detect an interesting shift that occurred when Hamburg’s administration embarked on the project of becoming a leading Smart City. At that point in time, an attitude of planning, characterized by the styles of foresight and prediction, by practices of calculating and by the logic of precaution was replaced, or at least complemented and challenged, by an attitude of experimenting towards real-time management, which is characterized by a style of premediation, practices of performing and a logic of preparedness (in terms of Anderson 2010). We discuss multiple implications of such a shift on governance arrangements and prospects for citizen participation and decision making.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Socio-Technical Futures Shaping the Present
Subtitle of host publication	Empirical Examples and Analytical Challenges
Editors	Andreas Lösch, Armin Grunwald, Martin Meister, Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer
Place of Publication	Wiesbaden
Pages	161–185
Edition	1.
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-658-27155-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27155-8_8
Publication status	Published - 12 Nov 2019

Publication series

Name	Technikzukünfte, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft / Futures of Technology, Science and Society
Publisher	Springer
ISSN (Print)	2524-3764
ISSN (Electronic)	2524-3772

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Späth, P., & Knieling, J. (2019). Smart City Experimentation in Urban Mobility: Exploring the Politics of Futuring in Hamburg. In A. Lösch, A. Grunwald, M. Meister, & I. Schulz-Schaeffer (Eds.), Socio-Technical Futures Shaping the Present: Empirical Examples and Analytical Challenges (1. ed., pp. 161–185). (Technikzukünfte, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft / Futures of Technology, Science and Society).. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27155-8_8

Späth, Philipp ; Knieling, Jörg. / Smart City Experimentation in Urban Mobility : Exploring the Politics of Futuring in Hamburg. Socio-Technical Futures Shaping the Present: Empirical Examples and Analytical Challenges. editor / Andreas Lösch ; Armin Grunwald ; Martin Meister ; Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer. 1. ed. Wiesbaden, 2019. pp. 161–185 (Technikzukünfte, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft / Futures of Technology, Science and Society).

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Smart City Experimentation in Urban Mobility: Exploring the Politics of Futuring in Hamburg. / Späth, Philipp; Knieling, Jörg.
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Späth P, Knieling J. Smart City Experimentation in Urban Mobility: Exploring the Politics of Futuring in Hamburg. In Lösch A, Grunwald A, Meister M, Schulz-Schaeffer I, editors, Socio-Technical Futures Shaping the Present: Empirical Examples and Analytical Challenges. 1. ed. Wiesbaden. 2019. p. 161–185. (Technikzukünfte, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft / Futures of Technology, Science and Society). doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-27155-8_8