Christian Anderson and Jin-Kyu Jung publishes paper about possibilities for cooperative, equitable, and participatory forms of smart urbanism

IAS faculty members Christian Anderson and Jin-Kyu Jung co-authored a paper, “For a Cooperative “Smart” City Yet to Come: Place-Based Knowledge, Commons, and Prospects for Inclusive Municipal Processes From Seattle, Washington,” in Urban Planning Journal. The paper explores possibilities for cooperative, equitable, and participatory forms of smart urbanism, drawing from two examples of community organizing in Seattle that sketches out a broad sense of how a community’s place-based knowledge, experiences, and forms of expertise might be understood as resources for the proposes of urban planning. The article also connects these possibilities to ongoing debates and experiments with “commons” and “commoning” that might be radically democratic, inclusive, open-ended, and potentially transformative as alternative “smart” processes.