A new wave of enthusiasm for smart cities, urban data, and the
Internet of Things has created the impression that computation can
solve almost any urban problem. Subjecting this claim to critical
scrutiny, in this book, Andres Luque-Ayala and Simon Marvin examine
the cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts in which urban
computational logics have emerged. They consider the rationalities
and techniques that constitute emerging computational forms of
urbanization, including work on digital urbanism, smart cities,
and, more recently, platform urbanism. They explore the modest
potentials and serious contradictions of reconfiguring urban life,
city services, and urban-networked infrastructure through
computational operating systems--an urban OS.Luque-Ayala and Marvin
argue that in order to understand how digital technologies
transform and shape the city, it is necessary to analyze the
underlying computational logics themselves. Drawing on fieldwork
that stretches across eleven cities in American, European, and
Asian contexts, they investigate how digital products, services,
and ecosystems are reshaping the ways in which the city is
imagined, known, and governed. They discuss the reconstitution of
the contemporary city through digital technologies, practices, and
techniques, including data-driven governance, predictive analytics,
digital mapping, urban sensing, digitally enabled control rooms,
civic hacking, and open data narratives. Focusing on the
relationship between the emerging operating systems of the city and
their traditional infrastructures, they shed light on the political
implications of using computer technologies to understand and
generate new urban spaces and flows.
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