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In the contemporary moment, smart citieshave become the dominant paradigm for urban planning and administration, which involves weaving the urban fabric with digital technologies. Recently, however, the promises of smart cities have been gradually supplanted by recognition of their inherent inequalities, and scholars are increasingly working to envision alternative smart cities. Informed by these pressing challenges, Digital (In)Justice in the Smart City foregrounds discussions of how we should think of and work towards urban digital justice in the smart city. It provides a deep exploration of the sources of injustice that percolate throughout a range of sociotechnical assemblages, and it questions whether working towards more just, sustainable, liveable, and egalitarian cities requires that we look beyond the limitations of ""smartness"" altogether. The book grapples with how geographies impact smart city visions and roll-outs, on the one hand, and how (unjust) geographies are produced in smart pursuits, on the other. Ultimately, Digital (In)Justice in the Smart City envisions alternative cities smart or merely digital and outlines the sorts of roles that the commons, utopia, and the law might take on in our conceptions and realizations of better cities.

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Digital (In)Justice in the Smart City is a critical intervention in geography, urban studies, and planning. The book is rare in critically interrogating the very concept and discourse of 'smart' across diverse global geographies, while insisting on the irreducible necessity of justice. In doing so, the authors go beyond discussions of technology versus people, and focus on what it might mean to deploy technology and big data infrastructures in order to politically enfranchise diverse and plural groups of people. Above all, the book is truly inspiring in its capacity to envision smartness not as an existing thing, but as a city yet to come whose futures are plural and still to be contested. - Orit Halpern, Lighthouse Professor, Technische Universitat Dresden and co-author of The Smartness Mandate As cities become more digital, it becomes increasingly imperative to understand the ways that 'smart' technologies contribute to injustices and inequalities. This pathbreaking and original book provides readers with the contours of the debate around digital urban injustice, and opens up a much-needed space for thinking about what justice in our cities of the future might look like. - Mark Graham, Professor of Internet Geography, University of Oxford This very rich and carefully edited collection offers the most comprehensive analysis so far of the relations between smart cities and social justice. It is also the obituary we were waiting for to finally say farewell to the smart city and keep working critically on what matters most: social and environmental justice in a digitalized and datafied urban world. - Ola Soederstroem, Professor of Social and Cultural Geography, University of Neuchatel

"" Digital (In)Justice in the Smart City is a critical intervention in geography, urban studies, and planning. The book is rare in critically interrogating the very concept and discourse of 'smart' across diverse global geographies, while insisting on the irreducible necessity of justice. In doing so, the authors go beyond discussions of technology versus people, and focus on what it might mean to deploy technology and big data infrastructures in order to politically enfranchise diverse and plural groups of people. Above all, the book is truly inspiring in its capacity to envision smartness not as an existing thing, but as a city yet to come whose futures are plural and still to be contested."" --Orit Halpern, Lighthouse Professor, Technische Universität Dresden and co-author of The Smartness Mandate ""This very rich and carefully edited collection offers the most comprehensive analysis so far of the relations between smart cities and social justice. It is also the obituary we were waiting for to finally say farewell to the smart city and keep working critically on what matters most: social and environmental justice in a digitalized and datafied urban world."" --Ola Söderström, Professor of Social and Cultural Geography, University of Neuchâtel ""As cities become more digital, it becomes increasingly imperative to understand the ways that 'smart' technologies contribute to injustices and inequalities. This pathbreaking and original book provides readers with the contours of the debate around digital urban injustice, and opens up a much-needed space for thinking about what justice in our cities of the future might look like."" --Mark Graham, Professor of Internet Geography, University of Oxford

"""Digital (In)Justice in the Smart City is a critical intervention in geography, urban studies, and planning. The book is rare in critically interrogating the very concept and discourse of 'smart' across diverse global geographies, while insisting on the irreducible necessity of justice. In doing so, the authors go beyond discussions of technology versus people, and focus on what it might mean to deploy technology and big data infrastructures in order to politically enfranchise diverse and plural groups of people. Above all, the book is truly inspiring in its capacity to envision smartness not as an existing thing, but as a city yet to come whose futures are plural and still to be contested.""--Orit Halpern, Lighthouse Professor, Technische Universit�t Dresden and co-author of The Smartness Mandate ""This very rich and carefully edited collection offers the most comprehensive analysis so far of the relations between smart cities and social justice. It is also the obituary we were waiting for to finally say farewell to the smart city and keep working critically on what matters most: social and environmental justice in a digitalized and datafied urban world.""--Ola S�derstr�m, Professor of Social and Cultural Geography, University of Neuch�tel ""As cities become more digital, it becomes increasingly imperative to understand the ways that 'smart' technologies contribute to injustices and inequalities. This pathbreaking and original book provides readers with the contours of the debate around digital urban injustice, and opens up a much-needed space for thinking about what justice in our cities of the future might look like.""--Mark Graham, Professor of Internet Geography, University of Oxford"

"""Digital (In)Justice in the Smart City is a critical intervention in geography, urban studies, and planning. The book is rare in critically interrogating the very concept and discourse of 'smart' across diverse global geographies, while insisting on the irreducible necessity of justice. In doing so, the authors go beyond discussions of technology versus people, and focus on what it might mean to deploy technology and big data infrastructures in order to politically enfranchise diverse and plural groups of people. Above all, the book is truly inspiring in its capacity to envision smartness not as an existing thing, but as a city yet to come whose futures are plural and still to be contested."" - Orit Halpern, Lighthouse Professor, Technische Universität Dresden and co-author of The Smartness Mandate ""As cities become more digital, it becomes increasingly imperative to understand the ways that 'smart' technologies contribute to injustices and inequalities. This pathbreaking and original book provides readers with the contours of the debate around digital urban injustice, and opens up a much-needed space for thinking about what justice in our cities of the future might look like."" - Mark Graham, Professor of Internet Geography, University of Oxford ""This very rich and carefully edited collection offers the most comprehensive analysis so far of the relations between smart cities and social justice. It is also the obituary we were waiting for to finally say farewell to the smart city and keep working critically on what matters most: social and environmental justice in a digitalized and datafied urban world."" - Ola Söderström, Professor of Social and Cultural Geography, University of Neuchâtel"

"""Digital (In)Justice in the Smart City is a critical intervention in geography, urban studies, and planning. The book is rare in critically interrogating the very concept and discourse of 'smart' across diverse global geographies, while insisting on the irreducible necessity of justice. In doing so, the authors go beyond discussions of technology versus people, and focus on what it might mean to deploy technology and big data infrastructures in order to politically enfranchise diverse and plural groups of people. Above all, the book is truly inspiring in its capacity to envision smartness not as an existing thing, but as a city yet to come whose futures are plural and still to be contested.""--Orit Halpern, Lighthouse Professor, Technische Universität Dresden and co-author of The Smartness Mandate ""This very rich and carefully edited collection offers the most comprehensive analysis so far of the relations between smart cities and social justice. It is also the obituary we were waiting for to finally say farewell to the smart city and keep working critically on what matters most: social and environmental justice in a digitalized and datafied urban world.""--Ola Söderström, Professor of Social and Cultural Geography, University of Neuchâtel ""As cities become more digital, it becomes increasingly imperative to understand the ways that 'smart' technologies contribute to injustices and inequalities. This pathbreaking and original book provides readers with the contours of the debate around digital urban injustice, and opens up a much-needed space for thinking about what justice in our cities of the future might look like.""--Mark Graham, Professor of Internet Geography, University of Oxford"

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Debra Mackinnon is an assistant professor in the Interdisciplinary Studies Department at Lakehead University. Ryan Burns is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Calgary. Victoria Fast is an associate professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Calgary.

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