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Uneven Innovation - The Work of Smart Cities (Hardcover)
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Uneven Innovation - The Work of Smart Cities (Hardcover)
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The city of the future, we are told, is the smart city. By
seamlessly integrating information and communication technologies
into the provision and management of public services, such cities
will enhance opportunity and bolster civic engagement. Smarter
cities will bring in new revenue while saving money. They will be
more of everything that a twenty-first century urban planner,
citizen, and elected official wants: more efficient, more
sustainable, and more inclusive. Is this true? In Uneven
Innovation, Jennifer Clark considers the potential of these
emerging technologies as well as their capacity to exacerbate
existing inequalities and even produce new ones. She reframes the
smart city concept within the trajectory of uneven development of
cities and regions, as well as the long history of technocratic
solutions to urban policy challenges. Clark argues that urban
change driven by the technology sector is following the patterns
that have previously led to imbalanced access, opportunities, and
outcomes. The tech sector needs the city, yet it exploits and
maintains unequal arrangements, embedding labor flexibility and
precarity in the built environment. Technology development, Uneven
Innovation contends, is the easy part; understanding the city and
its governance, regulation, access, participation, and
representation-all of which are complex and highly localized-is the
real challenge. Clark's critique leads to policy prescriptions that
present a path toward an alternative future in which smart cities
result in more equitable communities.
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