ISBN:
0300223803
,
9780300223804
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 208 pages
,
22 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Powell, Alison B. Undoing optimization
DDC:
307.76
Keywords:
Smart cities
;
Smart cities Social aspects
;
Cities and towns Effect of technological innovations on
;
Cities and towns ; Effect of technological innovations on
;
Smart cities
;
Smart City
;
Stadtsoziologie
Abstract:
City life has been reconfigured by our use-and our expectations-of communication, data, and sensing technologies. This book examines the civic use, regulation, and politics of these technologies, looking at how governments, planners, citizens, and activists expect them to enhance life in the city. Alison Powell argues that the de facto forms of citizenship that emerge in relation to these technologies represent sites of contention over how governance and civic power should operate. These become more significant in an increasingly urbanized and polarized world facing new struggles over local participation and engagement. The author moves past the usual discussion of top-down versus bottom-up civic action and instead explains how citizenship shifts in response to technological change and particularly in response to issues related to pervasive sensing, big data, and surveillance in "smart cities."
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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