Digital (In)Justice in the Smart City

Herausgeber: Mackinnon, Debra; Fast, Victoria; Burns, Ryan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores relations between smartness and social justice, and questions whether working toward more just and sustainable cities requires that we look beyond the limitations of "smartness" altogether.

Produktdetails

• Technoscience and Society
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 826g
• ISBN-13: 9781487527150
• ISBN-10: 1487527152
• Artikelnr.: 63661802

Autorenporträt

Edited by Debra Mackinnon, Ryan Burns, and Victoria Fast

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Introduction: Towards Urban Digital Justice: The Smart City as an Empty
Signifier
Part One: Challenging the Foundations of Smart
A Dialogue with Stephen Graham
1 Who Is Telling the Smart City Story? Feminist Diffractions of Smart
Cities
2 More Queer, More than Human: Challenges for Thinking Digital Justice in
the Smart City
3 Urbanists in the Smart City: Sidewalks, Sidewalk Labs and the Limits to
"Complexity"
4 The Evolution of Splintering Urbanism in Planetary Information Ecosystems
5 Cybernetic Urbanism: Tracing the Development of the Responsibilized
Subject and the Self-Organizing Communities in Smart Cities
Part Two: Data Decisioning and Data Justice
A Dialogue with Rob Kitchin
6 Articulating Urban Collectives with Data
7 Coding Out Justice: Digital Platforms’ Enclosure of Public Transit in
Cities
8 Epistemic (In)justice in a Smart City: Proto-Smart and Post-Smart
Infrastructures for Urban Data
9 The Politics of Re-membering: Inequity, Governance, and Biodegradable
Data in the Smart City
Part Three: Infrastructures of Injustice
A Dialogue with Vincent Mosco
10 Good and Evil in the Autonomous City
11 Pornhub Helps: Digital Corporations in Italian Pandemic Cities
12 Trajectories of Data-Driven Urbanism and the Case of Intelligent
Transport Systems
13 The Parking Problem and the Limits of Urban Digitalization
14 On the Contradictions of the (Climate) Smart City in the Context of
Socio-environmental Crisis
Part Four: Complicated and Complicating Digital Divides
A Dialogue with Ayona Datta
15 Decolonizing the Smart City: Excess and Appropriation of Uber Eats in
Santiago de Chile
16 Does Formalization Make a City Smarter? Towards Post-Elitist Smart
Cities
17 The Smart City and COVID-19: New Digital Divides amid Hyperconnectivity
18 Beyond the Digital Divide: Libraries Enabling the Just Smart City
19 Struggling Zones, Stagnant Cities, Inner Regions: Just Renewal through
Smartness in Saint John, New Brunswick?
Part Five: Urban Citizenship and Participation
A Dialogue with Alison Powell
20 The Challenges of Fostering Citizenship in the Smart City
21 Structuring More, Inclusive, and Smart Participation in Planning:
Lessons from the Field
22 Emerging Inequalities in Citizen-centric Smart City Development: The
Perceptible Initiatives in Taipei
23 Reimagining Smart Citizenship, Reconciling (Im)Partial Truths: POFMA,
Digital Data, and Singapore’s Smart Nation
24 From Smart to Sharing Cities: The Promise of Citizen-Led, Place-Based
Digitalization
Contributors
Index