Equality in the City

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Imaginaries of the Smart Future

Series: Mediated Cities

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Equality in the City presents a compelling critique of the 'smart city' rhetoric, fostering a timely debate on the future shape and priorities of urban spaces. Through a multi-disciplinary lens, acclaimed scholars examine proposed networked digital technologies that are intended to influence planning policies, control infrastructures, and manage city services and systems. The contributors offer valuable insights into how future cities might be conceived, planned, and realised with greater equality at their core.
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Equality in the City is essential reading for urban planners, policy makers, scholars of urbanism, and students interested in equitable city development and the impact of digital technologies on urban planning.

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A compelling critique of “smart city” rhetoric.

Equality in the City engenders a timely debate about what future cities might look like and what their concerns should be. Using a multi-disciplinary perspective, it features acclaimed scholars whose work investigates the proposed networked, digital technologies that ostensibly affect planning policies, control infrastructures, and deliver and manage city services and systems. The contributors offer insights into how future cities might be envisaged, planned, and executed in order to be more equal.

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One of this book's strengths lies in bridging traditional planning and urban studies theories with the challenges posed by new technologies, helping readers grasp the complexity of equitable urban change. It offers planners critical perspectives on engaging communities regarding technology adoption, making it ideal for planning theory education. -- Pamela Robinson, Journal of the American Planning Association

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781789387612

Publisher: Intellect

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 June 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Intellect Books

Edition: New edition

Illustration: 29 Illustrations, color; 3 Halftones, black and white

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Edited by Susan Flynn
Series edited by Graham Cairns
Series edited by Graham Cairns

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 463g

Pages: 286

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Science & Nature Series: Mediated Cities

About the Author

Dr. Susan Flynn is a lecturer at the School of Education and Lifelong Learning at Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland.

Equality in the City