Human Geography

Online first: Technological transformations and the city: Emerging research themes towards a socially just smart metropolis from a Marxist perspective

Author: Nikos Kapitsinis

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19427786251408023

“Literature in smart cities has been growing, although it has adopted a-political, a-spatial and a-critical approaches, neglecting crucial issues and thus leaving room for improvement and further need for studies highlighting and addressing them and particularly the socio-spatially uneven effects of smart city deployment. This intervention adopts a Marxist perspective and seeks to highlight important research themes, related to these neglected issues, whose exploration could provide socially useful insights and increase the chances for a socially just smart metropolis in the 2030s.”

Technological transformations and the city: Emerging research themes towards a socially just smart metropolis from a Marxist perspective - Nikos Kapitsinis, 2026 Metropolitan areas have been recently facing important challenges and transformations due to significant structural changes, such as consecutive crises, climate...

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