🌏 2025 Spring Human Geography Guest Lecture｜Are Smart Cities Really That Smart?
✨ As “smart cities” become a global trend, governments across Asia are racing to build high-tech, eco-friendly urban futures. But behind the buzzwords and sleek technologies—what realities are we overlooking?
📍Lecture Topic: The global strive for “smart” urbanization: uncovering the gap between rhetoric and reality in Asia
🗣️ Guest Speaker｜Prof. Marco Zappa
Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
📅 Date｜April 15th, 2025 (Tuesday), 1:10–3:00 PM
📍 Location｜Room 406, International Building (Uphill Campus), NCCU
Starting from Japan and South Korea, Professor Zappa takes us on a critical journey through Asia’s smart city initiatives—questioning whether these projects genuinely improve urban life or simply create high-tech enclaves for the privileged few.
👉 Are smart cities solving urban issues?
👉 Or are they reinforcing inequality through polished tech narratives?
🔍 Join us for an eye-opening discussion on urban development, tech policy, and the hidden politics of “smartness.” Open to all students and faculty interested in cities, technology, and society!
