Discourses and practices of the smart city in Central Eastern Europe: insights from Hungary’s ‘big’ cities

Krisztina Varró and Ádám Szalai

Urban Research & Practice, 2022, vol. 15, issue 5, 699-723

Abstract: This paper intends to fill a gap in critical smart city scholarship regarding the Central Eastern European (CEE) context. To this end, smart city understandings and practices in Hungary’s five (non-capital) major cities are examined through a discourse-analytical focus on relevant municipal planning documents, existing interventions and key actors’ interpretations. The paper concludes that although smart city building in Hungary in many ways aligns with trends in the Global North and South, there are also notable differences that need to be contextualized in the country’s historically shaped trajectory of urban (policy) development, especially its post-socialist institutional path-dependencies.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2021.1904276

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