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Equality in the City : Imaginaries of the Smart Future.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Flynn, Susan.
Contributor:
Cairns, Graham.
Series:
Mediated cities series.
Mediated cities series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
City planning--Technological innovations.
City planning.
Sociology, Urban.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (288 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Intellect 2022
Bristol : Intellect Books Ltd, 2021.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Interdisciplinary collection exploring cities and urban spaces in the context of technological and digital innovation. An approachable discussion of the issues surrounding smart digital futures and the disruptive potential of smart technologies in our cities; issues of change, design, austerity, ownership, citizenship and equality. 22 half-tones.
Contents:
Front Cover
Half Title
Equality in the City: Imaginaries of the Smart Future
Copyright Page
Epigraph
Table of contents
Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Equality
Technological solutionism
Citizens
Urban crisis
City design
Spatial humanism
References
Section 1 Urban Crisis
1 Locked Down in the Neo-Liberal Smart City: A-Systemic Technologies in Crisis
Unprecedented efficiency, connectivity and social harmony?
Virtual and algorithmic smart cities
Broken infrastructures
Just smart cities
Conclusion
2 Int 'smart':: cities (void)
'Smart' incongruences
China: Kashgar, Xinjiang - the 'smart' prison
India: Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh - the concrete on halt farm
Canada: Quayside, Toronto - Google urbanism
An imperative 'smart' comprehensive assessment
3 Reading Lefebvre's Right to the City in the Age of the Internet
Negotiating rights to the city in virtual space: The panopticon, agonism and the echo chamber
The internet as two-way panopticon
Popular culture, citizen power and the internet
Agonism and the risk of the 'echo chamber'
The form and the management of the smart city: Justice and the right to the city
Reproducing inequalities: The real and the virtual city
Notes
4 Universities, Equality and the Neo-Liberal City
Universities: 'anchors' or 'ivory towers'?
The use of universities
Strategic priorities in Ireland
Neo-liberal urbanization
Alternatives and responses
Section 2 City Design
5 Universal Smart City Design
Inclusive smart cities
Technotopia
Inclusion of smart citizens
Capabilities of smart citizens
Universal smart city design.
Principle 1: Equitable use
Social integration
Personalization
Cultural appropriateness
Principle 2: Flexibility in use
Principle 3: Simple and intuitive use
Principle 4: Perceptible information
Principle 5: Tolerance for error
Principle 6: Low physical effort
Principle 7: Size and space for approach and use
Discussion: Wellness in the coordinated smart city
6 The Design and Public Imaginaries of Smart Street Furniture
Smart citizens: Imaginaries of the smart citizen
Seeing public imaginaries through smart street furniture
Methods and analysis
InLinkUK and Strawberry Energy's imaginaries of the end users of smart kiosks/benches
Young, mobile and connected
Smart and sustainable
Essential, but for whom?
Imagined publics versus actual publics
The passive user
The active user
The imagined other user
Discussion and conclusion
7 Co-creating Place and Creativity Through Media Architecture: The InstaBooth
Background and research design: Place, community and media architecture
The InstaBooth
Deployment 1: Brisbane Writers Festival
Deployment 2: Pomona
Methods
Findings
Cognitive dimensions
Providing a platform
Place of learning
Affective dimensions
Feelings on community
Behavioural dimensions
Hope for the future
Discussion
8 Narratives, Inequalities and Civic Participation: A Case for 'More-Than-Technological' Approaches to Smart City Development
The Dublin context
Case study 1: Smart Docklands
Case study 2: A Playful City
The context for the project
How does A Playful City work?
Case study 3: Mapping Green Dublin
Engaging a greening community
Concluding thoughts.
Notes
Section 3 Spatial Humanism
9 Building Participatory City 2.0: Folksonomy, Taxonomy, Hyperhumanism
Folksonomy
Taxonomy
Hyperhumanism
Towards a folksonomy of the city
Social cities not smart cities (cities for people not technocrats)
Voluntary community in context or virtual communities decontextualized?
This chapter
The Origin of Spaces, City 2.0 and folksonomy of the city
Social Cities of Tomorrow: Conclusions
Ambient Learning City (MOSI-ALONG) and a folksonomy of emerging 'participatory practice'
The Origin of Spaces: Towards a folksonomy of the city
The Origin of Spaces: 'Folksonomy'
Sharing participatory city practices after #oosEU
Third places and urban regeneration
How to make City 2.0 participatory: A five-step model
Step 1: Setting a 'place' - gathering the resources
Step 2: Attracting, promoting collaboration and building a community ecosystem
Step 3: Building a community
Step 4: Extend to the city - connect your space community to other city space(s)
Step 5: Connecting citywide ecosystems to other cities
Values of hyperhumanism
Internet of fungus
Context engineering
Web 2.0: From rhizomatic learner to rhizomatic citizen
Afterword
10 Psychogeography: Reimagining and Re-Enchanting the Smart City
The smart city
Psychogeography
Surrealism
The situationists
Psychogeography (Iain Sinclair)
More walking
The irrational
A changing London
My London (the emergence of non-places)
Burgess Park
Discovery
The ancestral connection
Burgess Park: A brief history
Burgess Park and gentrification
Burgess park: The revamp
Afterword: Decentring the Smart City
Contributors
Back Cover.
Notes:
CC BY-NC-ND
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
9781789384666
1789384664
9781789384659
1789384656
OCLC:
1310706221
Publisher Number:
https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789384642
Access Restriction:
Open Access Unrestricted online access

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