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, Leeds, 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