ISBN:
9780774862394
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (309 pages)
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Illustrationen, Karten
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Digital lives in the global city
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Digitalisierung
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Stadtentwicklung
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Infrastruktur
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Weltstadt
Kurzfassung:
Digital Lives in the Global City asks how digital technologies are remaking urban life around the world, from migrant work in Singapore to digital debt in Toronto, illegal buildings in Mumbai, and targeted policing in New York.
Kurzfassung:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword: The Towers in the World, The world in the Towers -- Foreword: When Localities Go Global -- Introduction -- Toronto -- Digital Debt in a Precarious City -- Toronto's Unsecure(d) Urban Debtscape -- Automating Social Inequality -- ACORN's Campaign for Affordable Access -- Transmutations -- Security and Surveillance -- Digital Borders and Urban Worlds -- Audre Lorde's File and June Jordan's Skyrise -- Policing the Future(s) -- Policing Borders through Sound -- Big Data Meet Location Monitoring -- Digital Apartheid -- Mumbai -- Mumbai Rising, Buildings Falling -- On "Market-Friendly" Planning in Mumbai -- Kashaf Siddique on Being Precariously Home in the Suburbs -- Dispatch from Mumbai -- #WhyLoiter -- Shifting and Scripting Urban Lives -- High-Altitude Protests and Necropolitical Digits -- Terabytes of Love -- The Most Hated Woman in Israel -- DIY WI-FI -- Network Dislocations -- Singapore -- The Labour of Global City Building -- Skyline of Dreams -- Sunny Island Set in the Sea -- Singapore as Best Home -- Not another Cinderella Story -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index.
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