{"id":9182,"date":"2019-10-23T07:15:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T11:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/?p=9182"},"modified":"2019-10-23T13:17:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T17:17:49","slug":"the-future-fix-podcast-who-governs-the-smart-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2019\/10\/23\/the-future-fix-podcast-who-governs-the-smart-city\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future Fix Podcast: Who governs the Smart City?"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-9146\" class=\"post-9146 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-transit\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><em>Spacing<\/em>&nbsp;and Evergreen proudly present&nbsp;<em>The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada<\/em>, a special podcast series.<\/p>\n<div>It&#8217;s easy to be excited by the promise of new technology, and bold, transformative &#8220;smart city&#8221; projects. Often that promise is made by companies who offer to pull municipalities into the future, at a speed that leaves local government and leadership behind.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ryerson.ca\/surp\/people\/pamela-robinson\/\">Pamela Robinson<\/a>, director of Ryerson&#8217;s School of Urban and Regional Planning, and Future Cities Canada Fellow, says local government still has a role to play in smart city projects.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>And <a href=\"https:\/\/fnigc.ca\/tags\/jonathan-dewar\">Jonathan Dewar<\/a>, executive&nbsp;director of the First Nations Informations Governance Centre, says there&#8217;s a price to pay when marginalized communities don&#8217;t have access to the data being collected about them, or any say in how it&#8217;s gathered.<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/700493062&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=true&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9159 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/FCC_Logo_Horiz_Blue-300x141.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/FCC_Logo_Horiz_Blue-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/FCC_Logo_Horiz_Blue-768x362.png 768w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/FCC_Logo_Horiz_Blue-600x283.png 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/FCC_Logo_Horiz_Blue.png 792w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Future Fix is a partnership between Spacing and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evergreen.ca\/blog\/entry\/evergreen-cityworks-building-sustainable-cities-for-the-urban-century\/\">Evergreen<\/a>&nbsp;for the Community Solutions Network: a program of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/futurecitiescanada.ca\/\">Future Cities Canada<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/em><em>As the program lead, Evergreen is working with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opennorth.ca\/\">Open North<\/a>&nbsp;and partners to help communities of all sizes across Canada navigate the smart cities landscape.&nbsp;<\/em><em>The Community Solutions Network is supported with funding provided by Infrastructure Canada.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the podcast on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/spacing-radio\/id1124077274\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7j3L15Vo36v6MJGXask9HG\">Spotify<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/listen#\/ps\/Ix2fkh233gvpmmbgtby7exujgt4\">Google Play<\/a>, or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/spacingradio\">SoundCloud<\/a>, or follow our&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/users\/soundcloud:users:233628346\/sounds.rss\">RSS feed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing&nbsp;and Evergreen proudly present&nbsp;The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. 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Often that promise is made by companies who offer to pull municipalities into the future, at a speed that leaves local government and<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2019\/10\/23\/the-future-fix-podcast-who-governs-the-smart-city\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;The Future Fix Podcast: Who governs the Smart City?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8312,"featured_media":9191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[411,408,419,422,554,423,424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civic-engagement","category-community","category-infrastructure","category-neighbourhoods","category-podcast","category-politics","category-services"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Future Fix Podcast: Who governs the Smart City? - Spacing National<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2019\/10\/23\/the-future-fix-podcast-who-governs-the-smart-city\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Future Fix Podcast: Who governs the Smart City? - Spacing National\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spacing&nbsp;and Evergreen proudly present&nbsp;The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. 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