At the annual RC21 conference (Research Committee on Urban and Regional Development) of the International Sociological Association, which took place at El Colegio de México in Mexico City from 20 through 23 July 2016, Ugo Rossi presented a paper entitled “Fast Policy Revisited: Urban Development Models and the Changing Configurations of the City-Capitalism Nexus” within the session: “Importing and exporting wordly urbanism: The challenges of studying the global circulation of city models, best practices and imaginaries”. In his paper Ugo has critically compared the rationale of the smart city with those of other two influential urban development imaginaries – the creative city and the start-up/collaborative city – against the backdrop of recent crises and transformations of global capitalism.
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