Technology mediates how we know and experience cities, and the
nature of this mediation has always been deeply political. Today,
the production and deployment of data is at the forefront of
projects to grasp and reshape urban life. Ways of Knowing Cities
considers the role of technology in generating, materializing, and
contesting urban epistemologies-tracing an arc from ubiquitous
sites of "smart" urbanism, to discrete struggles over
infrastructural governance, to forgotten histories of segregation
now naturalized in urban algorithms, to exceptional territories of
border policing. Bringing together architects, urbanists, artists,
and scholars of critical migration studies, media theory,
geography, anthropology, and literature, the essays stage a deeply
interdisciplinary conversation, interrogating the ways in which
certain ways of knowing are predicated on the erasure of others. In
this opening, the book engages the information systems that
structure urban space and social life in it, historically and in
the present moment, to imagine alternative practices and generate
new critical perspectives on spatial research. Ways of Knowing
Cities includes texts by Eve Blau, Simone Browne, Maribel
Casas-Cortes, Wendy Chun, Sebastian Cobarrubias, Beth Coleman, V.
Mitch McEwen, Orit Halpern, Charles Heller, Shannon Mattern, Leah
Meisterlin, Tinashe Mushakavanhu, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Dietmar
Offenhuber, Lorenzo Pezzani, Anita Say Chan, and Matthew W. Wilson.
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