Beschreibung:
Smart Urbanism (SU) - the rebuilding of cities through the integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods, networked infrastructures and people - is being represented as a unique emerging 'solution' to the majority of problems faced by cities today. SU discourses, enacted by technology companies, national governments and supranational agencies alike, claim a supremacy of urban digital technologies for managing and controlling infrastructures, achieving greater effectiveness in managing service demand and reducing carbon emissions, developing greater social interaction and community networks, providing new services around health and social care etc. Smart urbanism is being represented as the response to almost every facet of the contemporary urban question.
About the authors; Chapter credits; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Smart cities and the politics of urban data; Chapter 3 IBM and the visual formation of smart cities; Chapter 4 The smart entrepreneurial city; Chapter 5 Getting smart about smart cities in Cape Town; Chapter 6 Programming environments; Chapter 7 Smart city initiatives and the Foucauldian logics of governing through code; Chapter 8 Geographies of smart urban power; Chapter 9 Test bed as urban epistemology; Chapter 10 Beyond the corporate smart city?; Chapter 11 Conclusion;