Liam Heaphy's research while affiliated with University College Dublin and other places
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Publications (18)
Planning studies on rural housing are heavily shaped by concepts from urbanized countries with larger populations and attendant conservation pressures on agricultural or otherwise protected land. In particular, Anglo-American theorization on counterurbanisation and the differentiated countryside have enabled planning theory to engage with and compa...
High-tech corporations have established a foothold in cities through innovation districts. Across the north Atlantic, these are typically waterfront urban renewal projects that repurpose formerly industrial land contiguous to the city centre into fully master-planned sites that also include smart city developments. Our case study focuses on the gov...
Introduction
Over the past decade, many cities have adopted policies and rolled out programmes and projects designed to transform them into a ‘smart city’. It is clear from the plethora of initiatives underway globally that the idea and ideals of smart cities are quite broadly conceived, with enterprises ranging from those: aimed at changing the na...
This chapter examines the technocracy of smart cities and the set of urban technocrats that promote and implement their use. It first sets out the new technocracy at work and the forms of technocratic governance and governmentality it enacts. The chapter then details how this technocracy is supported by a new smart city epistemic community of techn...
This article explores the process by which intelligent transport system technologies have further advanced a data-driven culture in public transport and traffic control. Based on 12 interviews with transport engineers and fieldwork visits to three control rooms, it follows the implementation of Real-Time Passenger Information in Dublin and the vari...
While there is a relatively extensive literature concerning the nature of smart cities in general, the roles of corporate actors in their production and the development and deployment of specific smart city technologies, to date there have been relatively few studies that have examined the situated practices by which the smart city unfolds in speci...
We argue that the ideas, ideals and the rapid proliferation of smart city rhetoric and initiatives globally have been facilitated and promoted by three inter-related communities: (i) `urban technocrats'; (ii) a smart cities `epistemic community'; (iii) a wider `advocacy coalition'. We examine their roles and the multiscale formation, and why despit...
The longevity of our urban buildings and streetscapes means that they will need to perform to a satisfactory standard in a context of climate change, with an increasing propensity for higher temperatures and extreme weather events accentuated by the urban heat island. Research funded to explore future climate in cities is frequently required to wor...
While there is a relatively extensive literature concerning the nature of smart cities in general, the roles of corporate actors in their production, and the development and deployment of specific smart city technologies, to date there have been relatively few studies that have examined the situated practices as to how the smart city as a whole unf...
In this paper, we argue that the ideas, ideals and the rapid proliferation of smart city rhetoric and initiatives globally have been facilitated and promoted by three inter-related communities. A new set of ‘urban technocrats’ – chief innovation/technology/data officers, project managers, consultants, designers, engineers, change-management civil s...
When attendant to the agency of models and the general context in which they perform, climate models can be seen as instrumental policy tools that may be evaluated in terms of their adequacy for purpose. In contrast, when analysed independently of their real-world usage for informing decision-making, the tendency can be to prioritise their represen...
Citations
... Rungnapha Khamung (2016) established a rural cultural heritage preservation management system [14]. Heaphy Liam (2022) proposed a framework for the preservation of housing to guide rural construction [15]. The domestic research is mainly in the fields of urban and rural planning, geography, and architecture. ...
... In more recent work this has however been acknowledged (Florida, 2017). Following the creative class literature, the knowledge-based urban development (KBUD) literature and architectural design framework (Yigitcanlar et al., 2008) has established links to urban planning theories, for example, through concepts such as smart cities and place making (Heaphy and Wiig, 2020). This stream of the literature has pointed toward the changing spatial location of knowledge-intensive industries from large suburban areas into the heart of cities. Initially introduced by the large tech company IBM, smart cities entail the idea of a technology and innovation-led approach to urban growth, management and planning. ...
... First, with the automation of the management of urban infrastructure and services as one of its key foci, smart urbanism is the matrix through which autonomous urban transport unfolds (Batty 2018). Second, we know that current practices of smart urbanism are often top-down and driven by neoliberal rationales of economic growth (Cugurullo 2018;Karvonen et al. 2018; although see below). Therefore, while being important, people's feelings towards emerging autonomous technologies might, in the end, play only a marginal role in determining future urban designs (Acheampong and Cugurullo 2019). ...
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... Here context matters. The smart-city agenda of Dublin, for instance, as several studies show, is deeply neoliberal in nature (Coletta et al., 2019;Kitchin et al., 2018). In this neoliberal context, therefore, the modes through which autonomous cars will be included in the transport portfolio of the city, are very likely to be determined by a network of actors from both the private and the public sector, with citizens having only marginal direct influence (if any influence at all). ...
... The smart city concept has received tremendous attention in urban studies and urban planning in the past decade. Originally a concept introduced by technology companies and techno-optimistic policy-makers, and later widely adopted by policymakers and city administrations, the social sciences and humanities have grabbled with the implications of the implementation of smart city strategies and initiatives around the world (Cardullo, Di Felicaiantonio, and Kitchin 2019;Clark 2020;Coletta et al. 2019;Halpern and Günel 2017;Karvonen, Cugurullo, and Caprotti 2019;. From the onset, criticisms have focused on its top-down and technology fixated to complex and enduring urban problems i.e. technological quick-fixes based on mainly digital technologies. ...
... Many utopian visions in the past have now become reality. Kitchin et al. [50] say that over the past decade, many cities have adopted policies and rolled out programs and projects designed to transform them into a 'smart city'. It is clear from the plethora of initiatives underway globally that the idea and ideals of smart cities are quite broadly conceived. ...
... In other words, there are many isolated smart projects within municipalities but little goes beyond that (Airbus, n.d.). Dourish (2016) has dubbed the western trend whereby disparate and uncoordinated municipal ICT projects are presented as a unified vision the 'accidental smart city' (Coletta et al., 2019). ...
... Schiller (2007) reveals that information governance may deviate from the "default" nature of public utility when the underlying public information infrastructure supporting governance becomes a battlefield for capital giants and technical elites to compete, resulting in increased commodification embedded in governance strategies. Critical scholarship has also questioned the increasingly technocratic and neoliberal nature of urban administration, which prioritizes efficiency, productivity, and optimization (Kitchin, 2014;Kitchin et al., 2017;Wiig, 2016). Jain (2006Jain ( , p. 2350 notes that the evolution of e-government toward efficiency, calculability, and predictability could disrupt and undermine the government's humane core and public-value mission, leading to a form of 2 ...
... It can be argued that the lack of implementation of concrete mitigation policies partly originates from the scarcity of practical tools that can streamline the integration of evidence-based climatic considerations into urban planning and design [3,16,17]. This is especially true when considering state-of-the-art simulation tools used today for estimating outdoor thermal comfort at the scale of an urban neighbourhood and beyond. ...
... Because of this, cities are lagging behind in terms of cutting-edge concepts and management techniques. To address urgent urban issues and maintain vital services and infrastructures, which are becoming more socially and technically complex and call for a multifaceted specialist intention, they are lacking the fundamental skills, knowledge, resources, and capacities (Kitchin et al., 2017a). Suggestively, the public sector should serve as a broker rather than a service provider, with smart city units acting as a source of initial expertise and establishing partnerships (Kitchin et al., 2018). ...
