Undoing optimization : civic action in smart cities / Alison B. Powell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powell, Alison B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smart cities--Social aspects.

Smart cities.

Cities and towns--Effect of technological innovations on.

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A unique examination of the civic use, regulation, and politics of communication and data technologies 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.&rdquo

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

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

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-300-25866-6

OCLC:

1245464595