Smart cities build on visions for using technology to optimise various infrastructural functions andãmake city management more efficient, sustainable, and reliable. However, scholarship on smart cities has drawn attention to how data-centric planning simplifies the complexity of the urban environment and how a dichotomous approach to smart cities as either top-down or bottom-up may be overly reductive. This paper attempts to remedy this divide by highlighting the horizontal tensions in smart city planning, where tensions around implementing smart technologies appear as multiple actors and discourses converge in creating complex governance structures. We offer a case study of how scalar, temporal and social tensions around implementing smart city technologies are negotiated, based on interviews with employees in a Swedish municipality and several municipal corporations. We elaborate on three themes around time, the role of the municipality and infrastructure to gain a deeper understanding of the governance of and attitudes towards smartification. The interviewees described the complexities of implementing smart technology in reality, spanning various scales and intermingling public and private interests. These issues matter for how the municipality and the municipal corporations work with implementing smart technologies, making it anything but a straightforward process.

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智能化的复杂性：探索智慧城市治理中的横向紧张局势


智慧城市建立在利用技术优化各种基础设施功能的愿景之上，并使城市管理更加高效、可持续和可靠。然而，关于智慧城市的学术研究引起了人们对以数据为中心的规划如何简化城市环境复杂性的关注，以及自上而下或自下而上的智慧城市二分法方法如何过于简化。本文试图通过强调智慧城市规划中的横向紧张局势来弥合这一鸿沟，其中围绕实施智能技术的紧张局势表现为多个参与者和话语融合在一起，以创建复杂的治理结构。我们提供了一个案例研究，根据对瑞典一家市政当局和几家市政公司员工的采访，如何协商围绕实施智慧城市技术的标量、时间和社会紧张局势。我们围绕时间、市政当局的作用和基础设施详细阐述了三个主题，以更深入地了解智能化的治理和态度。受访者描述了在现实中实施智能技术的复杂性，跨越各种规模，并将公共和私人利益交织在一起。这些问题对于市政当局和市政公司如何实施智能技术至关重要，这使其成为一个绝非简单的过程。