Smart City: A reterritorialization

Abstract

Smart cities are forms of appropriation of urban space based on the use of three intelligences – human, collective and artificial – and that implies territorial transformations. The research aims to discuss the smart city as a reterritorialization of all urban space through the conceptual examination of territory, territoriality, deterritorialization and reterritorialization. The justification is grounded in the contemporary search for solutions to social, economic and cultural problems facing cities. The problem leads us to respond if smart cities by creating solutions redefine the forms and space functions and by itself is a reterritorialization. The methodology employed documentary and empirical research with conceptual review of meritorious authors on topics such as Komninos (2008), Haesbaert (2004), Raffestin (1993) and Sack (1986). The research presents the answers to the problems of the urban development process propagated by the smart cities are able to redefine the use and occupation of the local, regional and national spaces, allowing for territorial transformation, and thus faces a reterritorialization.