Maroš Krivý, “Urbanists in the smart city:
sidewalks, Sidewalk Labs and the limits to ‘complexity’,” in D. Mackinnon, R. Burns and V. Fast (Eds.), Digital (In)justice in the Smart City (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023)
The chapter contributes to the critical smart city literature by examining what I call an imaginary of complexity: the belief that the city is a complex, spontaneously self-organizing system. In the field of urbanism, the smart city – in the sense of a city replete with digital sensors – aligns with a broader and older idea that the city is essentially smart, or what various authors refer to as being complex
The chapter contributes to the critical smart city literature by examining what I call an imaginary of complexity: the belief that the city is a complex, spontaneously self-organizing system. In the field of urbanism, the smart city – in the sense of a city replete with digital sensors – aligns with a broader and older idea that the city is essentially smart, or what various authors refer to as being complex