Smart cities as democratic ecologies. / Edited by Daniel Araya

Introduction. Smart Cities as Democratic Ecologies; Daniel Araya & Hassan Arif 1. Smart Cities and the Network Society: Towards Commons-Driven Governance; Daniel Araya 2. Government's Role in Growing a Smart City; Carlo Ratti, Matthew Claudel, and Alice Birolo 3. The Generative City; Ayesha and Parag Khanna 4. Urban Research Machines: Engaging the Modern Urban Citizen; Anijo Punnen Mathew 5. Are Creative and Green Cities also Smart and Clean?; Kevin Stolarick 6. Conversation and Narrative in the Smart City; Gerry Derksen, Piotr Michura and Stan Ruecker 7. The Reconfiguration of Time and Place After the Emergence of Peer-To-Peer Infrastructures: Four Future Scenarios with an Impact on Urbanism; Vasilis Kostakis, Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Niaros 8. Smart Cities: Towards the Surveillance Society?; Tarun Wadhwa 9. Surviving the Electronic Panopticon: New Lessons in Democracy, Surveillance, and Community in Young Adult Fiction; Kerry Mallan 10. Smart Cities Need Smart People: Songdo, South Korea; Tony Kim and Michelle Selinger 11. Zoning Experiments for Smart Cities; Roland Cole and Hassan Arif 12. Designing New Mobilities for Accessible Cities: Scenarios for Seamless Journeys; Barbara Adkins, Marianella Chamorro-Koc and Lisa Stafford 13. ExtraUrbia, or, the Reconfiguration of Spaces and Flows in a Time of Spatial-Financial Crisis; Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis

This collection focuses on technology-driven changes in democracy and civic engagement in the design and development of the 'smart city', exploring new urban literacies and emergent social practices.