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Smart Food Cities on the Menu? Integrating Urban Food Systems into Smart City Policy Making

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This chapter will explore the emergence of ‘smart cities’ in order to integrate the issue of urban agri-food systems. Our aim is to contribute to ‘smart food city’ conceptualizations by extending the notion of what makes a city ‘smart’ to include market and non-market activities, with particular attention to forms of urban activism pursuing urban food systems. Approaches to democratizing smart city concepts are discussed in Australia and Germany, where neoliberal efforts in smart city transformation can complicate local-level efforts to coordinate non-market relations in food democracy.

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    Digitization means the ‘full range of soft-ware driven processes—all the way from datafication and computation to prediction, display, communication and action—that allow increasingly smart machines to intervene in the world’ (Olleros and Zhegu 2016: 2).

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    Digi.City is a platform designed to discuss the policy behind deploying and supporting smart city technology.

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  1. Department of Geography, University of New South Wales Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    Israel Dela Cruz & Alec Thornton

  2. Humboldt University Berlin, UFZ Leipzig, Berlin, Germany

    Dagmar Haase

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Dela Cruz, I., Thornton, A., Haase, D. (2020). Smart Food Cities on the Menu? Integrating Urban Food Systems into Smart City Policy Making. In: Urban Food Democracy and Governance in North and South. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17187-2_5

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