Undoing optimization : civic action in smart cities / Alison B. Powell.
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. A...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2021]
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 208 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300258660 0300258666 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 08, 2021) |