Smart cities

The origins of the ‘smart city’ framework lie in a project championed by the likes of IBM and Cisco to optimise urban infrastructure through digital sensors that provide a variety of technological solutions to urban planning problems.

– [[Platform socialism]]

Jathan Sadowski has shown that this movement has been underpinned by an ideology of importing entrepreneurialism into town halls to enable corporations to monetise urban spaces.

– [[Platform socialism]]

• Seoul city machine
  • Saw it at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art
  • Shows the tension between smart city looking after us vs controlling us
  • https://vimeo.com/312092226

Links

• Toronto swaps Google-backed, not-so-smart city plans for people-centred vision