... of transformational possibility, detached from the networks, roles, and institutions of daily life. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 air quality monitoring co-creation liminality open source smart city politics Cans of Coke, bottles of beer, coffee cups, and empty pizza boxes are scattered...

... that such is the eventfulness of urban public space that the politics of place are always fleeting, hidden, and never reducible to human sociality alone. 2015 body/space interactions everyday city smart cities sociality and politics urban public space In March 2013, I was on an evening Eurostar train from...

... infrastructure. Marketed as a “smart city,” it is presented as an entire territory whose mandate is to produce interactive data fields that will, like the natural resources of another era, be mined for wealth and, similarly, will generate sub...

..., www.fastcompany.com/1710342/the-battle-­ for-­ the-­ soul-­ of-­ the-­ smart-­ city.­ Massey, Doreen. 2005. “Throwntogetherness: The politics of the event of place.” In For space, 149 – 62. London: Sage. Taylor, Peter. 2004. World city network...

...” cities, it was to justify urban plans produced through strikingly antidemocratic political processes and through physical interventions to structure social interaction—separating rich and poor or isolating ethnic groups ( Kargon and Molella 2008 ). Still, the urge to bring scientific methods to urban...

... . “ The Interoperability Controversy; or, How to Fail Successfully: Lessons from Europe .” International Journal of Migration and Border Studies 6 , nos. 1–2 : 93 – 114 . Caldeira Teresa P. 2017 . “ Peripheral Urbanization: Autoconstruction, Transversal Logics, and Politics in Cities of the Global South...

... capitalism, a complex fi eld often held up as an exemplar of hard-edged political economy. Nuttall and Mbembe (2004) see Johannesburg as a city held (analytically) hostage precisely to this political economy: to a proletarian culture on the one side and to antiurbanism on the other (Charles van...

... University Press 535 Public Culture Although in compromised forms, Weiser’s ideas for ubicomp made their way into designs for smart environments including the one Sal lived in and the one I am currently most interested in — the media...

..., and Politics in Cities of the Global South .” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 35 , no. 1 : 3 – 20 . De Boeck Filip , and Baloji Sammy . 2016 . Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo's Urban Worlds . London : Autograph . Rao Vyjayanthi . 2007 . “ Proximate...

... “in uniform or not,” as “an egalitarian provider of virtue.” So strong are this ideal and its power to outshine politics that as the young revelers move through the city on the eve of departure, women open windows from apartments above to shout the essay’s titular phrase, “Every Turk is born a soldier...

.... Cooper, John Milton, Jr. 2001 . Breaking the heart of the world: Woodrow Wilson and the fight for the League of Nations . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Freeland, Richard. 1972 . The Truman Doctrine and the origins of McCarthyism: Foreign policy, domestic politics,and internal security...

... in Chinese Painting (1996) and “The Hong Kong Clock—Public Time-Telling and Political Time/Space” ( Public Culture , spring 1997). A Chinese Dream by Wang Jin Wu Hung B orn in 1962 and first trained in traditional Chinese painting...

... Much of what we know about enumeration and urban politics comes from commentary on the benefits and dangers of “smart cities” in the global North ( Kitchin 2014; Greenfield 2013) . Intelligent technologies, infrastructures, and buildings are seen to require a population willing to relinquish ownership...

... and sensibilities of consumer sentiment. We can begin with that cosmopolitan city that never sleeps, New York, teem- ing with millions of would-be consumers. And yet this hub of commercial activ- ity, where mom-and-pop retailers and high-end boutiques...

... LeCavalier, Nerea Calvillo, and Wolfgang Pietsch examine the remarkable project undertaken in Songdo, South Korea, to build, literally from the ground up, a “smart city.” It is a project that often reads like pages out of a fantasy novel, in which machines lead the way to a future utopia, where...

... Working Class. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Currinder, Marian. 2008. Money in the House: Campaign Funds and Congres- sional Party Politics. Boulder, Colo.: Westview. Deutsch, Nancy L. 2008. Pride in the Projects: Teens Building Identities in Urban Contexts. New York: New York...

..., or South Korea’s ultimate “smart city” of Songdo. This phenomenon is not new, nor is it exclusive to the modern age. Many ideal towns built throughout the ages suffer from the same blandness and one- dimensionality. Filarete’s...

... period. People aren’t talking to each other. So whatever is called politics is just frozen. By contrast, design is not a luxury: the ability of designers to name and frame the problem is essential to getting us to move, to taking the next right step. Secretary of Urban Development, City of São...

... complex intersections of social, economic, and political forces. Theorists attribute a capacity to distinguish among divergent possibilities mingling unpredictably to the urban apparatus (Martin 2017 ). Critical methods remain attached to the idea that cities—whether as infrastructures, instruments...

... of Carlos’s sisters takes a picture of him with her smart phone. She then sends the image immediately to her parents. Some eight hours north of Guatemala City, Carlos’s father assesses the image to decide whether he should pay for another month of rehabilitation. The pastor discerns the image as well...