Index
The Smart City in a Digital World
ISBN: 978-1-78769-138-4, eISBN: 978-1-78769-135-3
Publication date: 28 August 2019
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Mosco, V. (2019), "Index", The Smart City in a Digital World (Society Now), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 251-263. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78769-135-320191011
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INDEX
Aadhaar system
, 116
Absurdism
, 105
Actants
, 61
Action Comics
, 24
Activists
, 6
Advertising
, 84, 201
Against the Grain (Scott)
, 42
Agglomeration economies
, 190
Agricultural surpluses
, 43
Airbnb
, 34, 156, 161, 223
Alibaba
, 5, 109–110, 216
Amazon
, 109–110, 222, 234, 237
Amazon Fresh concept
, 133–134
Amazon Go smart stores
, 132–133
Amazon in Seattle
, 132–134
delivery workers
, 146–147
American as Apple Pie
, 134–137
American Civil Liberties Union
, 85
Amsterdam
, 160–161
App-driven city
, 136–137
Apple
, 109–110, 146, 222, 237
Architecture Without Architects (Rudofsky)
, 40–41
Artificial intelligence systems (AI systems)
, 60, 143
AT&T
, 83, 180–181
Baidu
, 109–110
Barcelona
, 240
Barcelona en Comú
, 154–160
Becoming Digital (Mosco)
, 13–14, 19
Bell Labs
, 83
Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
, 113
Berns, Jeffrey
, 143
Bhopal Smart City Development Corporation
, 118
Big data analytics
, 19, 64–65
Big savings
, 67–68
Big technology
, 144–148
firms
, 162
Bitcoin
, 63
Black gold for hackers
, 224–227
Blockchain technology
, 143
Blockchain USA
, 143
Bloomberg administration
, 79
Bloomberg-Doctoroff impact
, 78
Broadband communication
, 51–52
Brutalism
, 179, 181
Burdick, Thelma
, 185–186
Business Improvement Districts (BIDs)
, 78, 129–132
Cable revolution
, 51
Capitalism
, 44, 99, 135, 186–188
Carbon footprint
, 232
Carousel of Progress
, 49
Cathedral of Commerce
, 178
Celebration, town of
, 15, 52
Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP)
, 81
Centralisation
, 69
Centralised national government control
, 99
Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
, 198
China
, (see also High-tech China)
colossal smart city programme
, 111
massive investment in smart cities
, 109
tech firms
, 111
China Hi-Tech Fair Smart City Exhibition
, 202
Cisco
, 5, 29, 153, 157–158, 198–199, 216
Citi Field
, 82
Citi Ventures
, 84
Citizen Cloud
, 102
Citizen Kane (film)
, 140
Citizen-focussed community
, 162
Citizens
, 98, 151, 242
Amsterdam
, 160–161
arrive
, 154
democracy by design
, 154–160
Google subsidiary
, 152
Ouishare Paris
, 161–162
sharing services in Seoul
, 162–163
tokenism
, 153–154
‘City Brain’
, 103
City Cockpit
, 71
City of technology
, 59
big savings
, 67–68
command and control in smart city
, 68–71
Next Internet
, 59–65
smart communication
, 65–67
smart energy
, 65–67
smart transportation
, 65–67
City-technology dance
, 43
CityBridge’s privacy policy claims
, 84–85
City–states
, 2–3
Civic Data Trust
, 89–90
‘Clean up’ neighbourhoods
, 191
‘Cli-fi’
, 9
Climate change
, 8–10, 115, 230–232
smart city governance and inevitability of
, 163–167
Climate refugees
, 9
Cloud computing
, 28, 61–63
Cold War
, 46
Coming of Post-Industrial Society, The (Bell)
, 187
Command and control in smart city
, 68–71
Communication
, 101, 105–106, 117
instant
, 1, 51
Communist Party
, 123
Communist Party of China (CPC)
, 105–106
Community building
, 51
Comprehensive democratic smart city strategy
, 154–155
Computer simulations in steel city
, 46–47
‘Congestion pricing’ system
, 236
Consumer culture
, 188
Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
, 202
Cornell Tech
, 73, 84
Corporate promotion of smart city technologies
, 203
Creative city
, 193
Creative class to smart city
, 187
capitalism
, 188–189
City of Angels
, 193–194
global information economy
, 187–188
imaginary
, 191–192
transformational change
, 192
urban imaginary
, 189–190
version of smart city imaginary
, 194–195
Crested anoles
, 8
Critical social science
, 3–8
Cryptocurrencies
, 63, 232
Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, The (Bell)
, 187
Cultural studies perspective
, 21
Cyberpunk
, 28
Cyberspace
, 190
‘dark Satanic Mills’
, 170
Data
centres
, 63
data-driven approach
, 206
sovereignty
, 158
Death and Life of Great American Cities, The (Jacobs)
, 40
Decentralised parliamentary system
, 117
Decision-making
algorithms
, 243
process
, 123
DECODE
, 160–161
Democracy by design
, 154–160
Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act
, 53–54
Denial-of-service attacks (DoS attacks)
, 225
Denver
, 236
‘Department of Commons’
, 240
Deus ex machina
, 24, 209
Digital
assistants
, 229
democracy
, 157
home services
, 222
infrastructure beacons
, 68
sublime
, 15, 164, 194, 233
‘Digitalization Hub’
, 71
Digitally enabled street lighting
, 200–201
Disney
, 129–132
Disney World
, 129–130
Diversity
, 190
Dynamic algorithms
, 217
Edge computing systems
, 63
Efficiency trap
, 231–232
Electronics Industry Association
, 51
End of Geography
, 190
Energy hogs
, 232
Environment protection
, 244
Environmental monitoring
, 117
Environmental Performance Index (2018)
, 120–121
Eugenics
, 173–174
Europe’s first smart city
, (see St Sofia)
Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (Epcot)
, 14–15, 18
Progressland to
, 48–50
Facebook
, 5, 34, 36, 109–110, 137, 146, 164–165, 237
Facebookville
, 137
FairBnB
, 160–161
Fifth-generation mobile technology
, 232
5G
technology
, 110, 205
wireless networks
, 31–32
Flixel Photos Inc.
, 88
Floating cities
, 141–142
Forbes (business magazine)
, 200
Free markets
, 173
Free Wi-Fi service
, 199–200
Friction-free capitalism
, 86
From Warfare to Welfare (Light)
, 46
Garden city-Radiant City ideal
, 177
Gates, Bill
, 142–143
Gentrification
, 82
Gig economy
, 146–147
Global information economy
, 187
Google
, 5, 34, 109–110, 134, 164–165, 206, 222, 234, 237
satellite
, 69
Sidewalk Labs subsidiary
, 151–152
subsidiary
, 152
Googleplex
, 37
Governance types
, 97–98
Government-directed smart cities policy
, 117
Government-led smart cities
, 98
high-tech China
, 101–115
Modi’s India
, 116–123
Singapore
, 98–101
Great Recession
, 198
Greater Than Ever: New York’s Big Comeback (Doctoroff)
, 75
Guardian, The (newspaper)
, 3
Hackers
, 160–161
black gold for
, 224–227
‘Heroic simpleton’
, 170
High Line
, 81–82
High-tech China
, 101
Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei city cluster
, 108–109
BRI
, 113
catastrophic climate change
, 115
China’s tech firms
, 111
Citizen Cloud
, 102
CPC
, 105–106
5G technology
, 110
Huawei smartphone app
, 103
incorporate “green” development
, 114
intellectual property
, 115
Shanghai
, 109
Songdo
, 107
TM Forum
, 104–105
Housing and Land Rights Network
, 119
Huawei
, 109–110
Smartphone app
, 103
Hudson Yards project
, 80–81
Hui Cultural Park
, 104–105
Human diversity
, 183
Human settlements
, 8
‘Hyper-scale’ cloud farms
, 231
IBM
, 3, 5, 29, 51, 153, 157–158, 216
smarter city
, 44–45
India
Bhopal Smart City Development Corporation
, 118
decision-making process
, 123
Environmental Performance Index (2018)
, 120–121
government-directed smart cities policy
, 117
Housing and Land Rights Network
, 119
Modi’s government
, 116
Smart Cities Mission
, 121–122
Industrial Revolution
, 170, 172, 176
Information and communications technology (ICT)
, 29–30, 70–71
Information technology
, 116, 157, 190, 192
Informational City, The (Castells)
, 188
Instacart shoppers
, 146–147
Instant communication
, 1, 51
Intellectual property
, 115, 152
International Olympic Committee
, 82
International organisations
, 208–209
Internet of Things (IoT)
, 13, 19, 59–61, 216, 242
devices
, 231–232
technologies
, 204–205
Journal of Strategy and Management, The (Capdevila and Zarlenga)
, 30
Journal of the American Institute of Planners (Arnstein)
, 153
Journal of the American Planning Association
, (see Journal of the American Institute of Planners (Arnstein))
Jupiter Networks
, 204
Key performance indicators (KPIs)
, 138
Kiosks
, 84
Kitchin’s visionary analysis
, 32–33
‘Knowledge City’
, 103
Kungsträdgården
, 233
Laissez-faire
, 173
Land-use planning
, 173
Language
, 34, 85, 105, 171, 194, 209
bureaucratic
, 91
nuanced
, 154
socio-spatial
, 233
transcendent
, 195
Lighting
, 66
Linux
, 34
‘Little Italy’
, 79
Livability
, 217–218
Looking Backward (Bellamy)
, 172
Low-bandwidth telephone system
, 53
Lyft
, 146–147
MacOS
, 34
Manifesto for smart city
, 241–244
Market-rate housing
, 178
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
, 46
Medical app
, 103
Mickey Mouse
, 129–130
Microsoft
, 109–110, 237
Ministry of Urban Development
, 117
Mobile payment system
, 102–103
Mobile phones
, 110
Model Cities Act
, (see Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act)
Monumental city
, 178
Moses highway project
, 86
Multimedia Super Corridor
, 15, 106–107
Municipal Institute of Information Technology
, 158
Municipalism
, 20, 155, 239–241
Municipalities
, 219
Muskville, Yarrabend
, 139–140
Mythorealism
, 105
Nanotechnology
, 143
Nation-states
, 6
National biometric identification programme
, 116
Nationalism
, 239
Neo-liberal capitalism
, 164–165
Neo-liberalism
, 164–165, 239
Neoliberal conception of citizenship
, 152
NEOM megacity project
, 136–137
Network
of cities
, 10–11
neutrality
, 238
systems
, 187
New Cities Initiative
, 138–139
New Delhi advocacy group
, 119
New Urban Crisis Index
, 79
New York World’s Fair (1964)
, 47–48
Next Internet
, 59
big data analytics
, 64–65
cloud computing
, 61–63
IoT
, 59–61
systems
, 19, 38, 159, 163–164, 242
technologies
, 103, 111, 203, 207, 216, 227
Non-participation
, 153–154
Normal Accidents (Perrow)
, 227
Occupy movement
, 192
Olympic bid
, 82
Olympic dream
, 82
Olympic Village
, 79
Online education
, 51
Online selling
, 190
Open Data Portal
, 158
Operating system
, 34
Organic city
imaginary
, 183
vision
, 189
Oslo Airport City (OAC)
, 166
Ouishare Paris
, 161–162
Outer Party members
, 146–147
Ownership of data
, 222–224
Paid publicity
, 200
Panoptic city
, 196–197
Panopticon
, 196
Parasitic rulers
, 43
Paris
, 175, 236
Parking garages
, 66
Participation
, 151
Amsterdam
, 160–161
democracy by design
, 154–160
Google subsidiary
, 152
Ouishare Paris
, 161–162
sharing services in Seoul
, 162–163
tokenism
, 153–154
‘PeopleMover’
, 49
Permanent settlements
, 42
Phantasmagoric quality
, 135
Pittsburgh approach
, 47
Planning Perspectives
, 174
Platforms
platform-based commercial organisations
, 161–162
smart city
, 34–38
Political economy
, 173
Postmodern design
, 179–180
Postmodernism
, 179
Privacy
by Design
, 220–221
policies
, 219
researchers
, 160–161
in smart city
, 219–222
Private Keynesianism
, 165
Private smart cities
, (see also Smart city)
Amazon in Seattle
, 132–134
American as Apple Pie
, 134–137
BIDs
, 129–130
big tech
, 144–148
Bill Gates in the desert
, 142–143
Blockchain USA
, 143
Disney
, 129–132
Muskville, Yarrabend
, 139–140
Peter Thiel’s floating cities
, 141–142
Y Combinator and New Cities Initiative
, 138–139
Zucktown
, 137
Production surpluses
, 42
Progress and Poverty (George)
, 173
Progressive social movements
, 155
Progressland to Epcot
, 48–50
Promenade Plantée
, 82
Public
catastrophe
, 225
communication
, 242–243
health services
, 244
institutions
, 243
services
, 103, 133–134
space
, 242
Wi-Fi
, 207
Public–private partnerships (P3s)
, 54, 78, 85, 131–132
Punch cards in City of Angels
, 47
Quantified community
, 81
Quayside smart city project
, 152
Radiant City
, 171, 175–178, 182
Radio Row
, 83
Real Smart Cities project
, 235
Recycling process
, 181
Regional health information platform
, 103
Research in Motion (Balsillie)
, 88
Resistance to smart cities
, 232–238
Right(s)
to communicate
, 243
of users
, 223
Rio Operations Center
, 68–69
Roosevelt Island
, 84
Seasteading Institute
, 141
Sedentism
, 42
Selling smart city
, 197, (see also Private smart cities)
company forecasts
, 201–202
corporate-sponsored contests
, 203–204
digitally enabled street lighting
, 200–201
free Wi-Fi service
, 199–200
free wireless for residents
, 206–207
International organisations
, 208–209
promotional conferences
, 202–203
Smart Cities Challenge
, 207–208
technological change
, 198–199
technology-enabled city
, 197–198
top 20 smart cities
, 204–205
Sensor-equipped tags
, 104
Server factories
, 63
Service Class
, 146–147
Sharing services in Seoul
, 162–163
Sidewalk Labs
, 73–75, 84–85, 89–91
Siemens
, 5, 70, 157–158, 216
Silicon Valley
, 15, 83, 139, 146
companies
, 112–113
technology
, 138–139
Sinicisation process
, 105
Sisupalgarh
, 38–39
Sloan Commission on Cable Communications
, 53
‘Slum clearance’
, 185
‘Slumless, smokeless cities’
, 173
Smart Cities Mission
, 118–119, 121–122
Smart city
, (see also Private smart cities), 22, 28, 97, 172, 194, 209, 216, 230
in bottle
, 24
citizens
, 30–32
computer
, 33–34
creative class to
, 187–195
data-gathering system
, 243
event
, 198
governance and inevitability of climate change
, 163–167
manifesto for
, 241–244
movement
, 55, 98
municipalism
, 239–241
platform
, 34–38
proposals
, 23
resistance
, 232–238
smart distraction, climate change and efficiency trap
, 230–232
space-time machine
, 32–33
technology
, 28–30
technology enthusiasts
, 107
urban imaginary creation
, 216–230
Smart City in Digital World, The (Mosco)
, 1, 9, 11–14
city–states
, 2–3
climate change
, 8–10
critical social science
, 3–8
networks of cities
, 10–11
patterns
, 12–13
trilogy
, 13–15
urban areas
, 4–5
urban village to life in cities
, 15–18
Smart communication
, 65–67
Smart distraction
, 230–232
Smart energy
, 65–67
Smart home
, 222
Smart lighting
, 219
Smart Nation programme
, 99–100
Smart streets
, 244
lighting
, 201
Smart transportation
, 65–67
Social Construction of Ancient Cities, The (Smith)
, 39
Social credit score
, 101–115
Social entrepreneurs
, 160–161
Social movement organisations
, 161–162
Solutionism
, 230
Songdo
, 106–108
Sony
, 180
Sorry to Bother You (film)
, 37
Space-time machine
, 32–33
St Sofia (Europe’s first smart city)
, 114–115
State-driven smart cities
government-led smart cities
, 98–123
types of governance
, 97–98
Street View maps
, 69
Structural diversity
, 184
Sublime
, 173, 175, 200, 203
digital
, 15, 164, 194, 233
quality of organic city
, 184
technological
, 51–52, 195, 209
urban
, 24, 171, 173–175
vision
, 175, 181, 191–193, 195
Substantial anarcho-libertarian segment
, 141–142
Surveillance in smart city
, 100, 219–222
Taiwan-based Foxconn
, 197
Task-Rabbit manual labourers
, 146–147
Tata research group scholars
, 122–123
Tax revenues
, 165
Tech concierge
, 140
TechGirls Canada (Saadia Muzaffar)
, 89
Technological/technology
, 197, 239
advances
, 42
change
, 198–199
companies
, 216
development
, 190
sublime
, 51–52, 195, 209
technology-driven smart cities
, 1–2
technology-enabled cities
, 194, 230
technology-forward development
, 136–137
Telecommunication
equipment
, 109–110
technologies
, 187
Telecommunications and the City (Graham and Marvin)
, 188
Tencent
, 109–110
Tesla
batteries
, 140
charging stations
, 140
solar
, 140
transportation
, 140
3D printing
, 143
Time’s twisted arrow
, 38
Architecture Without Architects (Rudofsky)
, 40–41
first smart city
, 38–39
sedentary and smart
, 41–44
TM Forum
, 104–105
To the Cloud (Mosco)
, 13
Tokenism
, 153–154
Traffic management
, 207
Traffic signals
, 6–7
Transportation
, 101, 105–106, 117
Trojan Women (Euripides)
, 76
Uber
, 34, 146–147, 161–162
UK National Health Service
, 225
Union Carbide pesticide plant leakage in Bhopal
, 227
United Nations International Telecommunications Union
, 209
Urban development
, 120
Urban Dynamics (Forrester)
, 46
Urban dynamics in steel city
, 46–47
Urban imaginary
, 171
black gold for hackers
, 224–227
from creative class to smart city
, 187–195
livability
, 217–218
machine in garden
, 170–175
normal cities, normal accidents
, 227–230
ownership of data
, 222–224
Panoptic city
, 196–197
profit and power
, 216–217
selling smart city
, 197–209
surveillance and privacy
, 219–222
tower in park
, 175–182
urban dance
, 182–187
Urban life
, 183
Urban real estate
, 222
Urban sublime
, 24, 171, 173–175
Urban village to life in cities
, 15–18
Urbanism
, 153
US Postal Service
, 133–134
Utopian socialism
, 172
Utopianism
, 172
Virtual Singapore
, 100
Voting from home
, 51
Walt Disney and Quest for Community (Mannheim)
, 130
Walt Disney Company
, 131
Washington Post, The (newspaper)
, 137
Waterfront Toronto
, 86–89, 91
WeChat
Electronic Toll Collection system
, 110–111
‘Tencent ride code’
, 110–111
Western transnational corporation
, 117
Willow Village
, 36
Windows
, 34
Winter Olympic Games (2026)
, 233
Wired (magazine)
, 11, 207
Wired city
, 50–53
Wired Nation, The (Smith)
, 50–51
Wireless technology
, 200
World Health Organisation
, 120–121
World Trade Centre
, 121
WorryFree
, 37
Worst-case scenario
, 207
Y Combinator
, 37, 138–139
Zoning
regulations
, 78
variances
, 131–132
Zucktown
, 36–37, 137
- Prelims
- 1. The World is Urban
- 2. How to Think About Smart Cities
- 3. City of Technology: Where the Streets are Paved with Data
- 4. Who Governs? State-driven Smart Cities
- 5. Who Governs? Private Smart Cities
- 6. Who Governs? Citizens
- 7. The Urban Imaginary: Myths and Markets
- 8. Whose Smart City?
- Further Reading
- Index