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bookBeyond techno-utopia and its discontents: On the role of utopianism and speculative fiction in shaping alternatives to the smart city imaginary

In recent years, the ösmart city’ has become established in policy and planning discourse, embedd...

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bookCharismatic technology

To explain the uncanny holding power that some technologies seem to have, this paper presents a theo...

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