Digital (In)justice in the Smart City
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2023
- Category
- Geography, Urban & Land Use Planning, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781487527167
- Publish Date
- Feb 2023
- List Price
- $49.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781487527150
- Publish Date
- Feb 2023
- List Price
- $110.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781487527181
- Publish Date
- Dec 2022
- List Price
- $49.95
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Description
In the contemporary moment, smart cities have become the dominant paradigm for urban planning and administration, which involves weaving the urban fabric with digital technologies. Recently, however, the promises of smart cities have been gradually supplanted by recognition of their inherent inequalities, and scholars are increasingly working to envision alternative smart cities.
Informed by these pressing challenges, Digital (In)Justice in the Smart City foregrounds discussions of how we should think of and work towards urban digital justice in the smart city. It provides a deep exploration of the sources of injustice that percolate throughout a range of sociotechnical assemblages, and it questions whether working towards more just, sustainable, liveable, and egalitarian cities requires that we look beyond the limitations of "smartness" altogether. The book grapples with how geographies impact smart city visions and roll-outs, on the one hand, and how (unjust) geographies are produced in smart pursuits, on the other. Ultimately, Digital (In)Justice in the Smart City envisions alternative cities – smart or merely digital – and outlines the sorts of roles that the commons, utopia, and the law might take on in our conceptions and realizations of better cities.
About the authors
Debra Mackinnon is an assistant professor in the Interdisciplinary Studies Department at Lakehead University.
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Ryan Burns is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Calgary.
Victoria Fast is an associate professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Calgary.