The Smart City in a Digital World
- Length: 288 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Emerald Publishing
- Publication Date: 2019-08-28
- ISBN-10: 1787691381
- ISBN-13: 9781787691384
- Sales Rank: #2632605 (See Top 100 Books)
What makes a city smart? The Smart City in a Digital World takes on this question by describing, challenging, and offering democratic alternatives to the view that the answer begins and ends with technology. In the wake of the 2008 global financial meltdown, corporations converged on cities around the world to sell technology, harvest valuable data, and deepen the private governance of urban life. They partnered with governments to promise what on the surface look like unalloyed benefits to city dwellers: safer streets, cleaner air, more efficient transportation, instant communication for all, and algorithms that take governance out of the hands of flawed human beings. Another story lies beneath that surface. Technology-driven smart cities deepen surveillance, shift urban governance to private companies, shrink democracy, create a hackers paradise, and hasten the coming of catastrophic climate change.
The Smart City insists that people make cities smart, that human governance still matters, and that genuinely intelligent cities start with a vibrant democracy, a commitment to public space, and to citizen control over technology. To make this happen, we need to understand the technologies, the organizations, and the mythologies that power the global smart cities movement, as well as the growing resistance to the technology-driven city. Drawing on case studies from around the world that document the redevelopment of old cities and the creation of entirely new ones, The Smart City provides an essential guide to the future of urban life in a digital world.
Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of Tables About the Author Acknowledgements 1. The World is Urban City–States Critical Social Science Climate Change Networks of Cities What Makes a City Smart? Smart City Patterns A Trilogy From an Urban Village to a Life in Cities Overview of the Book Smart City in a Bottle Endnotes 2. How to Think About Smart Cities Stop Using the Term The Smart City is About Technology The Smart City is About Citizens The Smart City is a Space-Time Machine The Smart City is a Computer The Smart City is a Platform Time’s Twisted Arrow The First Smart City Architecture Without Architects Sedentary and Smart IBM’s Smarter City Computer Simulations and Urban Dynamics in the Steel City Punch Cards in the City of Angels The 1964 New York World’s Fair From Progressland to Epcot The Wired City The Technological Sublime The Past is not Necessarily Prologue Endnotes 3. City of Technology: Where the Streets Are Paved with Data Technology: The Next Internet The Internet of Things Cloud Computing Big Data Analytics Smart Transportation, Smart Energy, Smart Communication Big Savings Command and Control in the Smart City Google Toronto and it Comes Up New York Don’t Google This Endnotes 4. Who Governs? State-Driven Smart Cities Three Types of Governance Government-Led Smart Cities Singapore: City-state, Smart Nation, Surveillance Pioneer High-tech China: What’s Your Social Credit Score? Modi’s India: Let 100 Smart Cities Bloom Endnotes 5. Who Governs? Private Smart Cities But First, A Word About Disney Amazon in Seattle: When a Big City Becomes a Private Laboratory Company Towns: As American as Apple Pie Zucktown Y Combinator and the New Cities Initiative No, Not Muskville, Yarrabend Peter Thiel’s Floating Cities Bill Gates in the Desert Blockchain USA Will Big Tech Run Smart Cities? Endnotes 6. Who Governs? Citizens Citizens and Participation Barcelona en Comú: Democracy by Design Amsterdam: DECODE and FairBnB Ouishare Paris Sharing Services in Seoul Smart City Governance and the Inevitability of Climate Change Endnotes 7. The Urban Imaginary: Myths and Markets The Machine in the Garden The Tower in the Park The Urban Dance: Eyes on the Street From the Creative Class to the Smart City The Panoptic City? Selling the Smart City Endnotes 8. Whose Smart City? Why Create an Urban Imaginary? Profit and Power Livability Surveillance and Privacy Ownership of Data Black Gold for Hackers Normal Cities, Normal Accidents Smart Distraction, Climate Change and the Efficiency Trap Resistance Municipalism A Manifesto for the Smart City Endnotes Further Reading Index
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