[HTML][HTML] Alternatives to smart cities: A call for consideration of grassroots digital urbanism

N Vadiati - Digital Geography and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
This article contributes to the emerging body of urban digitalisation scholarship concerned
with alternative practices at the grassroots level by reviewing and structuring the literature in …

[HTML][HTML] Smart city development as spatial manifestations of 21st century capitalism

M De Jong, S Joss, A Taeihagh - Technological Forecasting and Social …, 2024 - Elsevier
Globally, smart cities attract billions of dollars in investment annually, with related market
opportunities forecast to grow year-on-year. The enormous resources poured into their …

[HTML][HTML] Platform landlords: Renters, personal data and new digital footholds of urban control

M Nethercote - Digital Geography and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Under digital capitalism, the interests of landed property and digital platforms are
converging. This article explores this dynamic in rental homes operated by corporate …

[HTML][HTML] Of fixes and glitches: Mixing metaphors for platform urbanism

V Carraro - Digital Geography and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
The growing influence of digital platforms on cities has captured the attention of urban
scholars, marking a 'platform pivot'in digital geography and urban research. This article …

[HTML][HTML] Towards alternative platform futures in post-pandemic cities? A case study on platformization and changing socio-spatial relations in on-demand food delivery

Y Ecker, A Strüver - Digital Geography and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
Digital platforms have become an increasingly central concept for reflecting societal
processes, but the historical and spatial embeddedness of platformization is often neglected …

Dynamic capabilities of the public sector: Towards a new synthesis

R Kattel - 2022 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how important public sector capacities and capabilities
are in terms of reacting to crises, and re-configuring existing policies and implementation …

Aversive racism and community-instigated policing: The spatial politics of Nextdoor

S Bloch - Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
I bring an understanding of the concept and practice of “aversive racism” to scholarly
thinking about community formation. I argue that the exclusionary contours of community are …

Urban neoliberalism, smart city, and Big Tech: the aborted Sidewalk Labs Toronto experiment

P Filion, M Moos, G Sands - Journal of Urban Affairs, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT On May 7, 2020, Sidewalk Labs (part of Alphabet, which includes Google)
abandoned its Toronto waterfront redevelopment project after two-and-a-half years of …

[HTML][HTML] Power in urban logistics: A comparative analysis of networks and policymaking in logistics sustainability governance

S Shrestha, H Haarstad, R Rosales - Environmental Innovation and Societal …, 2024 - Elsevier
This article unpacks the power relations in urban logistics to understand why cities follow
different policy pathways to sustainability. Drawing on the literature on power in …

Everyday contours and politics of infrastructure: Informal governance of electricity access in urban Ghana

EF Amankwaa, KV Gough - Urban Studies, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This article contributes to sha** the discourse on unequal geographies of infrastructure
and governance in the global South, opening up new ways of thinking through politics …