Digital (In)justice in the Smart City

Edited by Debra Mackinnon, Ryan Burns and Victoria Fast

Published: February 2023

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Imprint: University of Toronto Press

Series: Technoscience and Society

Page Count: 448 Pages

Illustrations: 14 b&w illustrations, 4 b&w maps, 8 b&w figures, 1 b&w table

Dimensions: 5.90 x 9.10

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448 Pages, 5.90 x 9.10 x 1.30 in, 14 b&w illustrations, 4 b&w maps, 8 b&w figures, 1 b&w table

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ISBN: 9781487527150

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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

"Digital (In)Justice in the Smart City is a critical intervention in geography, urban studies, and planning. The book is rare in critically interrogating the very concept and discourse of ‘smart’ across diverse global geographies, while insisting on the irreducible necessity of justice. In doing so, the authors go beyond discussions of technology versus people, and focus on what it might mean to deploy technology and big data infrastructures in order to politically enfranchise diverse and plural groups of people. Above all, the book is truly inspiring in its capacity to envision smartness not as an existing thing, but as a city yet to come whose futures are plural and still to be contested."
Orit Halpern, Lighthouse Professor, Technische Universität Dresden and co-author of The Smartness Mandate

"This very rich and carefully edited collection offers the most comprehensive analysis so far of the relations between smart cities and social justice. It is also the obituary we were waiting for to finally say farewell to the smart city and keep working critically on what matters most: social and environmental justice in a digitalized and datafied urban world."
Ola Söderström, Professor of Social and Cultural Geography, University of Neuchâtel

"As cities become more digital, it becomes increasingly imperative to understand the ways that ‘smart’ technologies contribute to injustices and inequalities. This pathbreaking and original book provides readers with the contours of the debate around digital urban injustice, and opens up a much-needed space for thinking about what justice in our cities of the future might look like."
Mark Graham, Professor of Internet Geography, University of Oxford

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