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Digital (in)justice in the Smart City
Debra Mackinnon (Edited by), Ryan Burns (Edited by), Victoria Fast (Edited by)
9781487527167
Paperback / softback, published 8 February 2023
444 pages, 14 b&w illustrations, 4 b&w maps, 8 b&w figures, 1 b&w table
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.58 kg
In the contemporary moment, smart cities have 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.
List of Figures Introduction: Towards Urban Digital Justice: The Smart City as an Empty Signifier Part One: Challenging the Foundations of Smart 1 Who Is Telling the Smart City Story? Feminist Diffractions of Smart Cities Part Two: Data Decisioning and Data Justice 6 Articulating Urban Collectives with Data Part Three: Infrastructures of Injustice 10 Good and Evil in the Autonomous City Part Four: Complicated and Complicating Digital Divides 15 Decolonizing the Smart City: Excess and Appropriation of Uber Eats in Santiago de Chile Part Five: Urban Citizenship and Participation 20 The Challenges of Fostering Citizenship in the Smart City Contributors
A Dialogue with Stephen Graham
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
A Dialogue with Rob Kitchin
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
A Dialogue with Vincent Mosco
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
A Dialogue with Ayona Datta
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?
A Dialogue with Alison Powell
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
Index