Overview

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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Author:   Debra Mackinnon ,  Ryan Burns ,  Victoria Fast
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.720kg
ISBN:  

9781487527150

ISBN 10:   1487527152
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   08 February 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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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 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 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 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 ""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 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"

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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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