Equality in the City : Imaginaries of the Smart Future

• Autore: Flynn Susan
• Pubblicazione: Bristol : , : Intellect Books Ltd, , 2021; ©2021
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Disciplina: 307.1216
• Soggetto topico: City planning - Technological innovations; City planning; Sociology, Urban
• Altri autori: CairnsGraham
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Introduction -- Unprecedented efficiency, connectivity and social harmony? -- Virtual and algorithmic smart cities -- Broken infrastructures -- Just smart cities -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 Int 'smart':: cities (void) -- Introduction -- '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 -- References -- 3 Reading Lefebvre's Right to the City in the Age of the Internet -- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Universities, Equality and the Neo-Liberal City -- Introduction -- Universities: 'anchors' or 'ivory towers'? -- The use of universities -- Strategic priorities in Ireland -- Neo-liberal urbanization -- Alternatives and responses -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Section 2 City Design -- 5 Universal Smart City Design -- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 The Design and Public Imaginaries of Smart Street Furniture -- Introduction -- 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 -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 7 Co-creating Place and Creativity Through Media Architecture: The InstaBooth -- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- References -- 8 Narratives, Inequalities and Civic Participation: A Case for 'More-Than-Technological' Approaches to Smart City Development -- Introduction -- 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 -- Discussion -- Concluding thoughts. ; Notes -- References -- Section 3 Spatial Humanism -- 9 Building Participatory City 2.0: Folksonomy, Taxonomy, Hyperhumanism -- Introduction -- 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 -- Hyperhumanism -- Values of hyperhumanism -- Internet of fungus -- Context engineering -- Web 2.0: From rhizomatic learner to rhizomatic citizen -- Afterword -- References -- 10 Psychogeography: Reimagining and Re-Enchanting the Smart City -- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Afterword: Decentring the Smart City -- References -- Contributors -- Back Cover.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Equality in the City
• ISBN: 1-78938-465-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910580294503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Mediated cities series.