Chapter ID: CBB945612494

Innovation for Whom? City Experiments and the Redefinition of Urban Democracy (2019)

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As “smart cities” or “eco cities” proliferate, innovation has become a central component of urban policy. This chapter discusses the politics of innovation in urban contexts by focusing on city experiment, that is, experiments conducted in the city and with the city. The analysis of city experiments is a path for displacing oppositions between (1) the stability of urban space and the “disruption” introduced by innovation, (2) “technical” innovation and “social” innovation, (3) the local life of cities and the global flows of technologies and capital. Instead, one can contrast various propositions for organizing innovation in the city. The example of innovation policy in San Francisco and its associated controversies shows that these propositions offer various imaginations of the beneficiaries of innovation, and eventually different understandings of urban democracy. In particular, the imagination of the city as a place for real-time experiments and the increasing role of global investment can be contrasted with other propositions, which make collective life the means and ends of urban innovation.

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Authors & Contributors
Germaine Halegoua
Fujigaki, Yuko
Jensen, Casper Bruun
Karvonen, Andrew
Marvin, Simon
Mohácsi, Gergely
Journals
Science, Technology, and Human Values
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Science as Culture
Science Communication
Social Studies of Science
Transfers
Publishers
MIT Press
Springer
The MIT Press
New York University Press
Routledge
Concepts
Science and technology studies (STS)
Smart cities
Cities and towns
Responsible research and innovation
Digital technologies
Urban planning
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Modern
Places
China
East Asia
Brazil
Vietnam
Asia
Europe
Institutions
Cisco Systems, Inc.
European Commission
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
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