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This collection considers the city of the future and its relationship to its citizens. It responds to the foregrounding of digital technologies in the management of urban spaces, and addresses some of the ways in which technologies are changing the places in which we live and the way we live in them.

A broad range of interdisciplinary contributors reflect on the global agenda of smart cities, the ruptures in smart discourse and the spaces where we might envisage a more user-friendly and bottom-up version of the smart future. The authors adopt an equality studies lens to assess how we might conceive of a future smart city and what fissures need to be addressed to ensure the smart future is equitable. In the project of envisaging this, they consider various approaches and arguments for equality in the imagined future city, putting people at the forefront of our discussions, rather than technologies.

In the smart discourse, hard data, technological solutions, global and national policy and macro issues tend to dominate. Here, the authors include ethnographic evidence, rather than rely on the perspective of the smart technologies’ experts, so that the arena for meaningful social development of the smart future can develop.

The international contributors respond purposefully to the smart imperative, to the disruptive potential of smart technologies in our cities: issues of change, design, austerity, ownership, citizenship and equality. The collection examines the pull between equality and engagement in smart futures. To date, the topic of smart cities has been approached from the perspective of digital media, human geography and information communications technology. This collection, however, presents a different angle. It seeks to open new discussions about what a smart future could do to bridge divides, to look at governmentality in the context of (in)equality in the city. The collection is an approachable discussion of the issues that surround smart digital futures and the imagined digital cities of the future. It is aspirational in that it seeks to imagine a truly egalitarian city of the future and to ponder how that might come about.

Primary readership will be academics and students in social science, architecture, urban planning, government employees, and those working or studying in social justice and equality studies

Introduction Susan Flynn

Section 1: Urban Crisis

1. Locked down in the neoliberal Smart City: A-systemic technologies in crisis. Eleanor Dare, Reader in Digital Media, Royal College of Art

2. If (equality). Delfina Fantini von Ditmar, Lecturer in Digital Research, Royal College of Art

3. Reading Lefebvre’s right to the city in the age of the internet. Alan Reeve. Reader in Urban Design, Oxford Brookes University

4. Universities, Equality and the Neoliberal City. Richard Hayes. Vice-President, Waterford Institute of Technology

Section 2: City Design

5. Universal Smart City Design. Eoghan Conor O’Shea, Lecturer in Universal Design and Architecture. Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland

6. The Design and Public Imaginaries of Smart Street Furniture. Justine Humphry, University of Sydney; Sophia Maalsen, University of Sydney; Justine Gangneux, University of Glasgow; Chris Chesher, University of Sydney; Matt Hanchard, University of Glasgow; Simon Joss, University of Glasgow; Peter Merrington, University of Glasgow; Bridgette Wessels, University of Glasgow

7. Co-creating Place and Creativity Through Media Architecture: The Instabooth. Glenda Caldwell, Associate Professor of Architecture, Queensland University of Technology

8. Narratives, inequalities and civic participation: A case for 'more-than-technological' approaches to smart city development. Carla Maria Kayanan, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University College Dublin; Niamh Moore-Cherry, Associate Professor of Urban Governance and Development in the School of Geography, University College Dublin and Alma Clavin, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University College Dublin

Section3: Spatial Humanism

9. Building Participatory City 2.0; Folksonomy, Taxonomy, Hyperhumanism. Carl Smith, Director of the Learning Technology Research Centre (LTRC) and Principal Research Fellow Ravensbourne University London; Fred Garnett, London Knowledge Lab and Manuel Laranja, Senior Associate Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Lisbon

10. Psychogeography: reimagining and re-enchanting the smart city. Adrian Sledmere, Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of the Arts, London

11. Afterword

Rob Kitchin, Professor of Human Geography, National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Sujets

Human Geography

Media Studies

Social Science

urban planning

Sociologie, société et politique

Sociology

Communication studies

Urban

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Publié par	Intellect Books
Date de parution	29 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781789384666
Langue	English

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Equality in the City
Equality in the City

Imaginaries of the Smart Future
edited by
Susan Flynn
First published in the UK in 2022 by
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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
– Albert Camus

What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.
– Charles Baudelaire
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Susan Flynn
Section 1: Urban Crisis
1. Locked Down in the Neo-Liberal Smart City: A-Systemic Technologies in Crisis
Eleanor Dare
2. If (Equality)
Delfina Fantini van Ditmar
3. Reading Lefebvre’s Right to the City in the Age of the Internet
Alan Reeve
4. Universities, Equality and the Neo-Liberal City
Richard Hayes
Section 2: City Design
5. Universal Smart City Design
Eoghan Conor O’Shea
6. The Design and Public Imaginaries of Smart Street Furniture
Justine Humphry, Sophia Maalsen, Justine Gangneux, Chris Chesher, Matt Hanchard, Simon Joss, Peter Merrington and Bridgette Wessels
7. Co-Creating Place and Creativity Through Media Architecture: The InstaBooth
Glenda Caldwell
8. Narratives, Inequalities and Civic Participation: A Case for ‘More-Than-Technological’ Approaches to Smart City Development
Carla Maria Kayanan, Niamh Moore-Cherry and Alma Clavin
Section 3: Spatial Humanism
9. Building Participatory City 2.0: Folksonomy, Taxonomy, Hyperhumanism
Carl Smith, Fred Garnett and Manuel Laranja
10. Psychogeography: Reimagining and Re-Enchanting the Smart City
Adrian Sledmere
11. Afterword: Decentring the Smart City
Rob Kitchin
Contributors
Figures
3.1 Modified modal of the process of subjection-qualification, based on Therborn (1980).
3.2 Ideological apparatuses in the process of subjection-qualification, from Therborn (1980).
3.3 Diagrammatic representation of Lefebvre’s triad of spatial practice, spaces of representation and representational space.
3.4 The intersection of lived and virtual space using Lefebvre’s distinction between representational of representation.
5.1 Expanding footpaths in Dingle, Kerry. Photo by author.
5.2 New pedestrian street in Dingle, county Kerry. Photo by author.
5.3 Hacked cycle lanes on Dublin city quays. Photo by Ray McAdam.
7.1 ChinaAfricaBlog, sidewalks for mobile phone usage in Chongqing, China. Twitter, 15 September 2014.
7.2 The InstaBooth at the ABC studios, Brisbane, Queensland.
7.3 The InstaBooth at the 2015 Brisbane Writers Festival.
7.4a and 7.4b Responses on display within the InstaBooth at the 2015 Brisbane Writers Festival.
7.5 InstaBooth in Pomona, Queensland.
8.1 Inner-city Dublin. Authors, 2020.
8.2 Construction of the Dublin Docklands. Photo by authors, 2019.
8.3 Bigbelly smart bin. Photo by authors, 2019.
8.4 The Spiel Mobile consultation device. Photo by authors, 2018.
8.5 Deep-mapping exercise in Dublin 8. Courtesy of Jason Sheridan.
10.1 Temporary display window at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, Peckham, referencing the erstwhile Grand Surrey canal.
10.2 Burgess Park – a psychogeographic map. Credit: Sinead McDonnell.
10.3 Faded glory of the Jones and Higgins department store.
10.4 Globe Bridge.
10.5 Tribute to Richard Farris, Postman’s Park, London EC1.
10.6 The author’s home: Galleria Court, Peckham.
10.7 The bridge to ‘nowhere’.
10.8 The bridge to ‘nowhere’ (from the path of the old canal).
10.9 St George’s Church.
10.10 St Mark’s Church.
10.11 All that remains of Chumleigh Street (residence of Sarah and Charlotte Sledmere at the time of the 1911 census).
10.12 Neate St, Burgess Park, in 2016.
10.13 Neate St, Burgess Park, after the master plan makeover in 2020.
10.14 COVID-19 quarantined gym equipment.
Acknowledgements
Where cities once had gatekeepers, academic territories are now often disputed, controlled and guarded. This collection is an attempt to bridge the often-disparate fields of equality and digital studies; to bring together dissenting voices, to look at the future of cities from alternative viewpoints and to celebrate different perspectives and multidisciplinarity. This would not have been possible without the encouragement of my friends and colleagues. Special thanks to Damien Raftery, Irene McCormick and Cathy Fennelly at IT Carlow, and to Emmett Cullinane at WIT, for their friendship and humour. Thanks to Richard Hayes at WIT for his insight and enthusiasm for this project. Thanks to Professor Kathleen Lynch, UCD, for generously sharing her work, time and encouragement.
Thanks, as always, to Jarek. Finally, to Alex, Jeffrey, Amy, Juliette and Tristan, thank you for inspiring me every day to try to make the world a better place.
Introduction
Susan Flynn
Equality in the city is an aspiration. Cities have never been equal, equitable or fair. Now, optimum efficiency is celebrated as progress, and reconfigurations of urban spaces are focused on the clean lines of punctual service delivery. Smart cites are controlled cities, where data is the fuel that pumps through the heart. The common denominator in smart city rhetoric is the assumption that organization, planning and programmability will provide optimum conditions for comfortable urban life. Yet some aspects of our cities and our lives within them will never be machine-readable (Mattern 2014 ) and there may be a growing disparity between the natural and the constructed; the vagaries and messiness versus the programmable and measurable life in cities. Giddens’s theory of social structure suggested that spaces and buildings are what people do with them – spaces themselves structure social relations and practices, and therefore ‘relations of power and discipline are inscribed into the apparently innocent spatiality of social life’ (Soja 1989 : 6). If urban life is to be smart, digital and codified, then what becomes of the varied human experiences and how can we consider their relation to power? How can this be married to digital futures?
The smart city emerges from networked urbanism, propagated by the promises of efficiency, using technologies to deliver and manage services to city dwellers; embedded sensors, drone surveillance and real-time monitoring to give us more effective transportation, waste, security and energy systems. Within this discourse, people are sources of data that are fed into algorithms; their experience of the city is muted in favour of the foregrounding of digital efficiency. Much great work on the neo-liberal ideals that underpin smart discourse has already been done (Kitchin 2014 ; Mattern 2017 ; Cardullo et al. 2018 ; Kitchin et al. 2018 ; Cardullo and Kitchin 2019 ). The various essays in this collection consider the promises of the smart future and provide some new discussions and provocations, moving beyond the field of human geography and urban planning to a social, personal and egalitarian approach.
By theorizing and interrogating various theoretical approaches to the promises of the smart city, we question how humans can feasibly have fair and equal access to those smart technologies that promise a better future. How can cities better support human life? What makes cities liveable in an era of growing urban inequality? While housing, service provision, health care, education and other important social needs are critical issues in imagining future cities, this collection looks more broadly at how we conceive of the city of the future and what sorts of steps can be taken to ‘take back the city’ in the digital future.
Smart futures and smart urbanism are situated in a paternalistic ethos rather than focused on human rights, citizenship and fair access to digital technologies that ostensibly improve human life. Such technologies are changing the places in which we live and the way we live in them. They also impact on our ideas about how and where we might live in the future. There is a reverence for what is called ‘disruptive technologies’ and the way in which disruption is deemed not just ok, but excellent, when it comes to how we live, work and exist in spaces. Disparate fields such as human geography, information and communications technology (ICT), engineering and social sciences have addressed many of the debates around the forms of (digitized) governance that smart cities propose. Here, we bring together scholars from across disciplines to consider ideas of active participation