[acc-cca-l] NEW BOOK: The Smart City in a Digital World
Enda Brophy
ebrophy at sfu.ca
Wed Aug 28 11:05:19 MDT 2019
Dear colleagues, I’m delighted to share this announcement from Vincent Mosco regarding his most recent book.
Best,
Enda
NEW BOOK:
The Smart City in a Digital World
Vincent Mosco
www.vincentmosco.com <http://www.vincentmosco.com/>
Paperback
https://bit.ly/2TRs2iS <https://bit.ly/2TRs2iS>
Kindle edition:
http://amzn.to/2iyoZKa <https://amzn.to/2PrdJ6a>
What makes a city smart? The Smart City in a Digital World takes on this question by describing, challenging, and offering democratic alternatives to the view that the answer begins and ends with technology. In the wake of the 2008 global financial meltdown, corporations converged on cities around the world to sell technology, harvest valuable data, and deepen the private governance of urban life. They partnered with governments to promise what on the surface look like unalloyed benefits to city dwellers: safer streets, cleaner air, more efficient transportation, instant communication for all, and algorithms that take governance out of the hands of flawed human beings. Another story lies beneath that surface. Technology-driven smart cities deepen surveillance, shift urban governance to private companies, shrink democracy, create a hacker’s paradise, and hasten the coming of catastrophic climate change.
The Smart City insists that people make cities smart, that human governance still matters, and that genuinely intelligent cities start with a vibrant democracy, a commitment to public space, and to citizen control over technology. To make this happen, we need to understand the technologies, the organizations, and the mythologies that power the global smart cities movement, as well as the growing resistance to the technology-driven city. Drawing on case studies from around the world that document the redevelopment of old cities and the creation of entirely new ones, The Smart City provides an essential guide to the future of urban life in a digital world.
Emerald Publishers.
ISBN-10: 1787691381
ISBN-13: 978-1787691384
Contents:
Chapter 1. The World is Urban
Chapter 2. How to Think About Smart Cities
Chapter 3. City of Technology: Where the Streets are Paved with Data
Chapter 4. Who Governs? State-driven Smart Cities
Chapter 5. Who Governs? Private Smart Cities
Chapter 6. Who Governs? Citizens
Chapter 7. The Urban Imaginary: Myths and Markets
Chapter 8. Whose Smart City?
Vincent Mosco is Professor Emeritus, Queen's University, Canada where he held the Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society. He is also Distinguished Professor, New Media Centre, School of Journalism and Communication, Fudan University, Shanghai. Dr. Mosco is author or editor of 26 books and over 200 articles and book chapters on communication, technology, and society including The Digital Sublime, The Political Economy of Communication, To the Cloud, and Becoming Digital.
Enda Brophy
Associate Professor | School of Communication
Associate | Labour Studies
Simon Fraser University | K9662
8888 University Dr., Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6
E: ebrophy at sfu.ca | T: 778-782-8085 | www.cmns.sfu.ca
Simon Fraser University lies on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations and Kwikwetlem (kʷikʷəƛ̓əm) Nations.
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