The emergence of urban tech economies calls attention to the multidimensional spatiality of ecosystems made up of people and organizations that produce new digital technology. Since the economic crisis of 2008, city governments have aggressively pursued economic growth by nurturing these ecosystems. Elected officials create public-private-nonprofit partnerships to build an “innovation complex” of discursive, organizational, and geographical spaces; they aim not only to jump-start economic growth but to remake the city for a new modernity. But it is difficult to insert tech production space into the complicated urban matrix. Embedded industries and social communities want protection from expanding tech companies and the real estate developers who build for them. City council members, state legislators, and community organizations oppose the city government’s attempts to satisfy Big Tech companies. While the city’s density magnifies conflicts of interest over land-use and labor issues, the covid-19 pandemic raises serious questions about the city’s ability to both oppose Big Tech and keep creating tech jobs.

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像城市一样看待：科技如何成为城市

城市科技经济的出现引起了人们对由生产新数字技术的人和组织组成的生态系统的多维空间性的关注。自 2008 年经济危机以来，市政府通过培育这些生态系统积极追求经济增长。Elected officials create public-private-nonprofit partnerships to build an “innovation complex” of discursive, organizational, and geographical spaces; 他们的目标不仅是推动经济增长，而且要改造这座城市以实现新的现代化。但很难将科技生产空间插入复杂的城市矩阵。嵌入式行业和社会社区希望保护不断扩大的科技公司和为他们建造的房地产开发商。市议员、州议员、和社区组织反对市政府试图满足大型科技公司的要求。虽然该市的人口密度加剧了在土地使用和劳动力问题上的利益冲突，但 covid-19 大流行引发了对该市反对大型科技公司和继续创造科技工作岗位的能力的严重质疑。