TY  - GEN
T1  - Undoing optimization : civic action in smart cities
A1  - Powell, Alison B.
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1245464595
AB  - City life has been reconfigured by our use-and our expectations-of communication, data, and sensing technologies. This book examines the civic use, regulation, and politics of these technologies, looking at how governments, planners, citizens, and activists expect them to enhance life in the city. Alison Powell argues that the de facto forms of citizenship that emerge in relation to these technologies represent sites of contention over how governance and civic power should operate. These become more significant in an increasingly urbanized and polarized world facing new struggles over local participation and engagement. The author moves past the usual discussion of top-down versus bottom-up civic action and instead explains how citizenship shifts in response to technological change and particularly in response to issues related to pervasive sensing, big data, and surveillance in "smart cities."
OP  - 208
CN  - HT153 .P69 2021
SN  - 9780300258660
SN  - 0300258666
SN  - 0300223803
SN  - 9780300223804
KW  - Smart cities : Social aspects.
KW  - Cities and towns : Effect of technological innovations on.
KW  - Villes intelligentes : Aspect social.
KW  - Villes : Effets des innovations sur.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
KW  - Cities and towns : Effect of technological innovations on
KW  - Smart cities
ER  -