Smart Urbanism

Utopian vision or false dawn?
Herausgeber: Marvin, Simon; Mcfarlane, Colin; Luque-Ayala, Andrés

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Produktbeschreibung

Smart Urbanism (SU) - the rebuilding of cities through the integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods, networked infrastructures and people - is being represented as a unique emerging 'solution' to the majority of problems faced by cities today. SU discourses, enacted by technology companies, national governments and supranational agencies alike, claim a supremacy of urban digital technologies for managing and controlling infrastructures, achieving greater effectiveness in managing service demand and reducing carbon emissions, developing greater social interaction and community networks, providing new services around health and social care etc. Smart urbanism is being represented as the response to almost every facet of the contemporary urban question. The volume provides the first internationally comparative assessment of SU in cities of the global north and south, critically evaluates whether current visions of SU are able to achieve their potential; and then identifies alternative trajectories for SU that hold radical promise for reshaping cities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781138844223
• ISBN-10: 1138844225
• Artikelnr.: 42741806

Autorenporträt

Simon Marvin is Professor and Director of the Urban Institute at Sheffield University. Andrés Luque-Ayala is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography at Durham University. Colin McFarlane is a Reader in the Department of Geography, Durham University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Andrés Luque-Ayala, Colin McFarlane and Simon Marvin
2. Smart cities and the politics of urban data
Rob Kitchin, Tracey Lauriault and Gavin McArdle
3. IBM and the visual formation of smart cities
Donald McNeill
4. The smart entrepreneurial city: Dholera and a 100 other utopias in
India
Ayona Datta
5. Getting smart about smart cities in Cape Town: Beyond the rhetoric
Nancy Odendaal
6. Programming environments: Environmentality and citizen sensing in the
smart city
Jennifer Gabrys
7. Smart-city initiatives and the Foucauldian logics of governing
through code
Francisco Klauser and Ola Söderström
8. Geographies of smart urban power
Gareth Powells, Harriet Bulkeley and Anthony McLean
9. Test-Bed as urban epistemology
Nerea Calvillo, Orit Halpern, Jesse LeCavalier and Wolfgang Pietsch
10. Beyond the corporate smart city?: Glimpses of other possibilities of
smartness
Robert G. Hollands
11. Conclusions
Colin McFarlane Andrés Luque-Ayala and Simon Marvin