The smart city in a digital world / / Vincent Mosco

• Autore: Mosco Vincent
• Pubblicazione: Bingley : , : Emerald Publishing Limited, , [2019]; ©2019
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 pages)
• Disciplina: 307.760285
• Soggetto topico: Smart cities; Smart cities - Social aspects; Cities and towns - Effect of technological innovations on - Citizen participation; Language Arts & Disciplines, Communication Studies; Communication studies
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Poet Page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- About the Author -- Acknowledgements -- 1-The World is Urban -- City-States -- Critical Social Science -- Climate Change -- Networks of Cities -- What Makes a City Smart? -- Smart City Patterns -- A Trilogy -- From an Urban Village to a Life in Cities -- Overview of the Book -- Smart City in a Bottle -- Endnotes -- 2-How to Think About Smart Cities -- Stop Using the Term -- The Smart City is About Technology -- The Smart City is About Citizens -- The Smart City is a Space-Time Machine -- The Smart City is a Computer -- The Smart City is a Platform -- Time's Twisted Arrow -- Architecture Without Architects -- Sedentary and Smart -- IBM's Smarter City -- Computer Simulations and Urban Dynamics in the Steel City -- Punch Cards in the City of Angels -- The 1964 New York World's Fair -- From Progressland to Epcot -- The Wired City -- The Technological Sublime -- The Past is not Necessarily Prologue -- 3-City of Technology: Where the Streets Are Paved with Data -- Technology: The Next Internet -- The Internet of Things -- Cloud Computing -- Big Data Analytics -- Smart Transportation, Smart Energy, Smart Communication -- Big Savings -- Command and Control in the Smart City -- Google Toronto and it Comes Up New York -- Don't Google This -- 4-Who Governs? State-Driven Smart Cities -- Three Types of Governance -- Government-Led Smart Cities -- High-tech China: What's Your Social Credit Score? -- Modi's India: Let 100 Smart Cities Bloom -- 5-Who Governs? Private Smart Cities -- But First, A Word About Disney -- Amazon in Seattle: When a Big City Becomes a Private Laboratory -- Company Towns: As American as Apple Pie -- Zucktown -- Y Combinator and the New Cities Initiative -- No, Not Muskville, Yarrabend. ; Peter Thiel's Floating Cities -- Bill Gates in the Desert -- Blockchain USA -- Will Big Tech Run Smart Cities? -- 6-Who Governs? Citizens -- Citizens and Participation -- Barcelona en Comú: Democracy by Design -- Amsterdam: DECODE and FairBnB -- Ouishare Paris -- Sharing Services in Seoul -- Smart City Governance and the Inevitability of Climate Change -- 7-The Urban Imaginary: Myths and Markets -- The Machine in the Garden -- The Tower in the Park -- The Urban Dance: Eyes on the Street -- From the Creative Class to the Smart City -- The Panoptic City? -- Selling the Smart City -- 8-Whose Smart City? -- Why Create an Urban Imaginary? -- Livability -- Surveillance and Privacy -- Ownership of Data -- Black Gold for Hackers -- Normal Cities, Normal Accidents -- Smart Distraction, Climate Change and the Efficiency Trap -- Resistance -- Municipalism -- A Manifesto for the Smart City -- Further Reading -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: What makes a city smart? The Smart City in a Digital World takes on this question by describing, challenging, and offering democratic alternatives to the view that the answer begins and ends with technology. In the wake of the 2008 global financial meltdown, corporations converged on cities around the world to sell technology, harvest valuable data, and deepen the private governance of urban life. They partnered with governments to promise what on the surface look like unalloyed benefits to city dwellers: safer streets, cleaner air, more efficient transportation, instant communication for all, and algorithms that take governance out of the hands of flawed human beings. Another story lies beneath that surface. Technology-driven smart cities deepen surveillance, shift urban governance to private companies, shrink democracy, create a hacker's paradise, and hasten the coming of catastrophic climate change.The Smart City insists that people make cities smart, that human governance still matters, and that genuinely intelligent cities start with a vibrant democracy, a commitment to public space, and to citizen control over technology. To make this happen, we need to understand the technologies, the organizations, and the mythologies that power the global smart cities movement, as well as the growing resistance to the technology-driven city. Drawing on case studies from around the world that document the redevelopment of old cities and the creation of entirely new ones, The Smart City provides an essential guide to the future of urban life in a digital world.
• Titolo autorizzato: The smart city in a digital world
• ISBN: 9781787691377; 1787691373; 9781787691353; 1787691357
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911145251403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SocietyNow.