platform urbanism

Platform Urbanism and the Governance of Cities

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Platform Urbanism and the Governance of Cities

The digitisation of urban interactions creates productive data that can be leveraged to support better decision-making and critical transformations in the design of cities. And yet, as attention toward platform business models makes clear, many of today's digital platforms yield not just new data points or information flows that can enhance urban intelligence. They also raise complex new challenges to do with how data are used to capture and govern the informational landscapes of digitally mediated cities, provoking new challenges for urban leaders and decision makers.

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From URL to IRL: Reflections on urban digital possibilities

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From URL to IRL: Reflections on urban digital possibilities

More and more of our daily lives – how we work, how we navigate, how we learn and how we entertain ourselves – take place through the interface of glowing rectangular screens. As a consequence there is mounting concern about what smartphones are doing to our attention spans, our capacity for random human interactions and our self-esteem.

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Mine your data: open data, digital strategies and entrepreneurial governance by code

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Mine your data: open data, digital strategies and entrepreneurial governance by code

A recent article on the uses of open data by city governments. A recent shift in the rhetorical aspirations of the open data movement away from the values of openness and transparency and towards a more confined focus on value generation raise important critical questions for urban geographers concerned with the nature of urban governance in an age of big data.

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