Undoing optimization: civic action in smart cities
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…
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- Full title :Undoing optimization : civic action in smart cities / Alison B. Powell.
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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."
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- Publication Date:©2021
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Yale University Press
- Place of Publication:New Haven
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2021
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- Description:1 online resource (xiii, 208 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780300258660, 0300258666
- oclc:on1245464595
- LC Classification:HT153
- Dewey Decimal:307.76
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION. Technology, Citizenship, and Frameworks of the Smart City -- ONE. Network Access and the Smart City of Connectivity -- TWO. Data Cities and Visions of Optimization -- THREE. Entrepreneurial Data Citizenships, Open Data Movements, and Audit Culture -- FOUR. Rethinking Civic Voice in Post-Neoliberal Cities -- FIVE. The Ends of Optimization -- CONCLUSION. The Right to Minimum Viable Datafication.
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