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Technology as Ideology in Urban Governance
Annals of the American Association of Geographers ( IF 3.982 ) Pub Date : 2019-10-16 , DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2019.1660139
Luis F. Alvarez León 1 , Jovanna Rosen 2
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This article argues that the turn toward smart cities, emphasizing solutions, services, and infrastructures driven by digital technologies, has reinforced a dominant ideology shaping urban decision making, frameworks, and outcomes. Two core dimensions of this ideology of technology in urban governance interact to consequentially reshape urban processes: (1) the priority of attracting high-technology industries as engines for urban economies and (2) the tendency to reframe urban problems into technological problems, to be addressed by technological solutions. Together, these mechanisms operate in conjunction to privilege technological needs, capacities, and priorities in urban governance, contributing to the widespread exclusion of people and problems beyond the scope of technology. Although not unprecedented, this ideology of technology has acquired renewed potency with neoliberalized urbanism, urban restructuring, and the ongoing information revolution. Furthermore, these changes intensify the ongoing transformation of cities (and space more generally) into digitized spaces tailored for capital accumulation in the context of digital and surveillance capitalism. To illustrate these dynamics, we briefly describe recent events in San Francisco, one of the key sites in the current techno-economic paradigm. Key Words: digital economy, ideology, smart cities, technology, urban governance.



中文翻译:

技术作为城市治理中的意识形态

本文认为,向智慧城市的转变强调了由数字技术驱动的解决方案,服务和基础设施,从而强化了主导城市形态的决策,框架和成果的意识形态。在城市治理中,这种技术意识形态的两个核心维度相互作用,从而重塑了城市进程:(1)吸引高科技产业作为城市经济的引擎的优先考虑;(2)将城市问题重新划分为技术问题的趋势通过技术解决方案解决。这些机制共同作用,以特权授予城市管理中的技术需求,能力和优先事项,从而导致人们和技术范围之外的问题被广泛排斥。虽然并非史无前例,随着新自由化的城市主义,城市结构调整和持续的信息革命,这种技术意识形态获得了新的效力。此外,这些变化加剧了正在进行的城市(更广泛地说是空间)向数字化空间的转化,这些数字化空间是在数字和监督资本主义背景下为资本积累量身定制的。为了说明这些动态,我们简要描述了旧金山的最新事件,这是当前技术经济范例中的关键站点之一。关键词:数字经济,意识形态,智慧城市,技术,城市治理。

更新日期:2020-03-30
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