The Platform Economy And The Smart City

Author : Austin Zwick
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228007941
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Platform Economy and the Smart City written by Austin Zwick and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, cities have come into closer contact and conflict with new technologies. From reactive policymaking in response to platform economy firms to proactive policymaking in an effort to develop into smart cities, urban governance is transforming at an unprecedented speed and scale. Innovative technologies promise a brave new world of convenience and cost effectiveness – powered by cameras that monitor our movements, sensors that line our streets, and algorithms that determine our resource allocation – but at what cost? Exploring the relationship between technology and cities, this book brings together an outstanding group of authors in the field to provide a critical and necessary examination of the disruption that is under way. They look at how cities should understand and regulate novel technologies, what can be learned from proposed and failed smart city projects, and how innovative economies change the structure of cities themselves. Contributors dig deeply into these and similar subjects, contributing their voices to an important dialogue on the future of urban policy and governance. The first collection of its kind, this groundbreaking volume brings together social, economic, and cultural insights to enhance our understanding of the ongoing technological upheaval in cities around the world.

Author : Austin Zwick
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 022800795X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Platform Economy and the Smart City written by Austin Zwick and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, cities have come into closer contact and conflict with new technologies. From reactive policymaking in response to platform economy firms to proactive policymaking in an effort to develop into smart cities, urban governance is transforming at an unprecedented speed and scale. Innovative technologies promise a brave new world of convenience and cost effectiveness – powered by cameras that monitor our movements, sensors that line our streets, and algorithms that determine our resource allocation – but at what cost? Exploring the relationship between technology and cities, this book brings together an outstanding group of authors in the field to provide a critical and necessary examination of the disruption that is under way. They look at how cities should understand and regulate novel technologies, what can be learned from proposed and failed smart city projects, and how innovative economies change the structure of cities themselves. Contributors dig deeply into these and similar subjects, contributing their voices to an important dialogue on the future of urban policy and governance. The first collection of its kind, this groundbreaking volume brings together social, economic, and cultural insights to enhance our understanding of the ongoing technological upheaval in cities around the world.

Author : Aaron Shapiro
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452962111
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design, Control, Predict written by Aaron Shapiro and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at life in the “smart” city Technology has fundamentally transformed urban life. But today’s “smart” cities look little like what experts had predicted. Aaron Shapiro shows us the true face of the revolution in urban technology, taking the reader on a tour of today’s smart city. Along the way, he develops a new lens for interpreting urban technologies—logistical governance—to critique an urban future based on extraction and rationalization. Through ethnographic research, journalistic interviews, and his own hands-on experience, Shapiro helps us peer through cracks in the smart city’s facade. He investigates the true price New Yorkers pay for “free,” ad-funded WiFi, finding that it ultimately serves the ends of commercial media. He also builds on his experience as a bike courier for a food delivery startup to examine how promises of “flexible employment” in the gig economy in fact pave the way for strict managerial control. And he turns his eye toward hot-button debates around police violence and new patrol technologies, asking whether algorithms are really the answer to reforming our cities’ ongoing crises of criminal justice. Through these gripping accounts of the new technological urbanism, Design, Control, Predict makes vital contributions to conversations around data privacy and algorithmic governance. Shapiro brings much-needed empirical research to a field that has often relied on “10,000-foot views.” Timely, important, and expertly researched, Design, Control, Predict doesn’t just help us comprehend urbanism today—it advances strategies for critiquing and resisting a dystopian future that can seem inevitable.

Author : Mário Vale
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031535944
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geographies of the Platform Economy written by Mário Vale and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Allmendinger, Phil
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447356039
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten City written by Allmendinger, Phil and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all want cities, where more than half of the world’s population currently live, to be just, successful, clean, fair, green, sustainable, safe, healthy and affordable. Will ‘smart cities’ help achieve these aspirations or undermine them in the time of COVID-19? Phil Allmendinger, a world expert on cities, development, and urban governance, takes a critical approach to the role of ‘smart’ in future cities and the relationship with city development. Considering how technology can support active citizenship, he challenges the commercial drivers of big tech and warns that these, not developments for ‘social good’, may dominate. Focusing on the dangers posed by social media, the platform economy and AI, he sets out what those making decisions on city development need to understand in order to save the planet through active politics and healthy cities.

Author : Mayo Fuster Morell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788494510694
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharing Cities written by Mayo Fuster Morell and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anna Visvizi
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128166487
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smart Cities: Issues and Challenges written by Anna Visvizi and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart Cities: Issues and Challenges: Mapping Political, Social and Economic Risks and Threats serves as a primer on smart cities, providing readers with no prior knowledge on smart cities with an understanding of the current smart cities debates. Gathering cutting-edge research and insights from academics, practitioners and policymakers around the globe, it identifies and discusses the nascent threats and challenges contemporary urban areas face, highlighting the drivers and ways of navigating these issues in an effective manner. Uniquely providing a blend of conceptual academic analysis with empirical insights, the book produces policy recommendations that boost urban sustainability and resilience. Combines conceptual academic approaches with empirically-driven insights and best practices Offers new approaches and arguments from inter and multi-disciplinary perspectives Provides foundational knowledge and comparative insight from global case-studies that enable critical reflection and operationalization Generates policy recommendations that pave the way to debate and case-based planning

Author : Netexplo
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231003178
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smart cities written by Netexplo and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Oliver Gassmann
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787696138
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smart Cities written by Oliver Gassmann and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transforming cities through digital innovations is becoming an imperative for every city. However, city ecosystems widely struggle to start, manage and execute the transformation. This book aims to give a comprehensive overview of all facets of the Smart City transformation and provides concrete tools, checklists, and guiding frameworks.

Author : Mike Barlow
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111951620X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smart Cities, Smart Future written by Mike Barlow and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you curious about smart cities? You should be! By mid-century, two-thirds of us will live in cities. The world of tomorrow will be a world of cities. But will they be smart cities? Smart cities are complex blends of technologies, systems and services designed and orchestrated to help people lead productive, fulfilling, safe and happy lives. This remarkable book is a window into our shared future. In crisp language and sharp detail, Mike Barlow and Cornelia Lévy-Bencheton explain how smart cities are powerful forces for positive change. With keen eyes and warm hearts, they invite readers to imagine the world of tomorrow, a fascinating world of connected cities and communities. They capture and convey the depth and richness of the worldwide smart city movement. Smart Cities, Smart Future describes the impact of smart city projects on people in towns, cities and nations around the world. The book includes descriptions of ongoing smart city projects in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Looking Ahead to an Urban World No two smart cities are alike. No one can say with certainty or precision what the term “smart city” means. There is no standard definition or common template. Today, smart cities are works in progress. They emerge from our hopes and our dreams. This book provides you with the knowledge and insight you need to participate in the smart city movement. It explains how smart cities are “systems of systems” and introduces key concepts such as interoperability, open standards, resiliency, agility, adaptability and continuous improvement. Includes Detailed Glossary of Terms and Essential Vocabulary The book includes a detailed comprehensive glossary of essential smart city terms. The glossary will become your indispensable resource as you engage more deeply with the smart city movement and become more involved in planning our common future in an urban world. Carefully Researched and Crisply Written Smart Cities, Smart Future is carefully researched and fully documented. It includes interviews with leaders and experts in multiple disciplines essential to the development of smart cities, towns, regions, states and nations. Written in the clean style of modern journalism, the book offers a strong and compelling narrative of a changing world. It reminds us that we are responsible for choosing our destiny and determining the shape of things to come. The smart city movement is gaining speed and momentum. Read this book, and enjoy the ride!