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Book SynopsisThis book explores relations between smartness and social justice, and questions whether working toward more just and sustainable cities requires that we look beyond the limitations of smartness altogether.
Table of ContentsList of Figures Contributors Toward Urban Digital Justice: The Smart City as an Empty Signifier Part 1: Challenging the Foundations of Smart Dialogue with Stephen Graham 1. Who Is Telling the Smart City Story? Feminist Diffractions of Smart Cities 2. More Queer, More than Human: Challenges for Thinking Digital Justice in the Smart City 3. Urbanists in the Smart City: Sidewalks, Sidewalk Labs, and the Limits to “Complexity” 4. COVID-19 and the Co-evolution of Conspiratorial Urban Systems 5. Reimagining Smart Citizenship, Reconciling (Im)partial Truths: POFMA, Digital Data, and Singapore’s Smart Nation Part 2: Data Decisioning and Data Justice Dialogue with Rob Kitchin 6. Coding Out Justice: Digital Platforms’ Enclosure of Public Transit in Cities 7. Epistemic (In)justice in a Smart City – Proto-smart and Post-smart Infrastructures for Urban Data 8. The Politics of Re-membering: Inequity, Governance, and Biodegradable Data in the Smart City 9. The Data City as Public Experiment? Part 3: Infrastructures of Injustice Dialogue with Vincent Mosco 10. Good and Evil in the Autonomous City 11. Pornhub Helps: Digital Corporations in Italian Pandemic Cities 12. Trajectories of Data-Driven Urbanism and the Case of Intelligent Transport Systems 13. The Parking Problem and Limits of Urban Digitalization 14. On the Contradictions of the (Climate) Smart City in the Context of Socio-Environmental Crisis Part 4: Complicated and Complicating Digital Divides Dialogue with Ayona Datta 15. Decolonizing the Smart City: Excess and Appropriation of Uber Eats in Santiago de Chile 16. Does Formalization Make a City Smarter? Towards Post-elitist Smart Cities 17. The Smart City and COVID-19: New Digital Divides amid Hyper-connectivity 18. Beyond the Digital Divide: Libraries Enabling the Just Smart City 19. Struggling Zones, Stagnant Cities, Inner Regions: Just Renewal through Smartness in Saint John, New Brunswick? Part 5: Urban Citizenship and Participation Dialogue with Alison Powell 20. Smart Citizenship, Self-Organizing Communities, and Cybernetic Urbanism 21. Emerging Inequalities in Citizen-Centric Smart City Development: The “Perceptible” Initiatives in Taipei 22. The Challenges of Fostering Citizenship in the Smart City 23. From Smart to Sharing Cities: Towards Urban Social Justice in the Digital Age 24. Structuring More, Inclusive, and Smart Participation in Planning: Lessons from the Field
