zn article by Federico Caprotti (University of Exeter, UK) published in Urban Studies Volume 56 Issue 12 (September 2019)
Abstract
Smart urbanism is a currently popular and widespread way of conceptualising the future city. At the same time, the smart city is critiqued by several scholars as difficult to define, and as being almost invisible to the naked eye.
The article explores two urban spaces through which the smart city is rendered visible, in two UK cities that are prominent sites for smart urban experimentation and development.
Bristol’s Data Dome and Glasgow’s Operations Centre are analysed in light of their iconic nature. The article develops a conceptual understanding of these flagship spaces of the actually existing smart cities through three interrelated conceptual lenses.
Firstly, they are understood as a videological type of Leibniz’s concept of the windowless monad.
Secondly, they are conceptualised as examples of banal and serialised architecture.
Thirdly, these spaces and their attendant buildings are understood as totemic assemblages that point to newly emergent forms of elite urban power.
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Neighbourhood change and neighbour complaints: How gentrification and densification influence the prevalence of problems between neighbours
an article by Lynda Cheshire, Robin Fitzgerald and Yan Liu (The University of Queensland, Australia) published in Urban Studies Volume 56 Issue 6 (May 2019)
Abstract
As people who live in closest proximity to us, the conduct of neighbours can have an impact upon our lives, even if they are relative strangers.
While previous research has generally examined the positive effects of good neighbour interactions, neighbours can also be a source of nuisance, conflict and distress.
In the advent of socio-structural processes of urban policy and change – such as gentrification and densification – the taken-for-granted conventions that once regulated neighbour interactions are being eroded, potentially leading to greater levels of neighbour problems and complaints.
In this paper, we apply a latent modelling approach to identify subgroups of neighbourhoods based on their profiles of neighbour problems and to assess whether these subgroups are characterised by the degree of social change in the neighbourhood towards the dual processes of gentrification and densification.
The findings show that high intensity problems are associated with both processes, but that class factors of gentrification are more influential than density in accounting for neighbour tensions.
Abstract
As people who live in closest proximity to us, the conduct of neighbours can have an impact upon our lives, even if they are relative strangers.
While previous research has generally examined the positive effects of good neighbour interactions, neighbours can also be a source of nuisance, conflict and distress.
In the advent of socio-structural processes of urban policy and change – such as gentrification and densification – the taken-for-granted conventions that once regulated neighbour interactions are being eroded, potentially leading to greater levels of neighbour problems and complaints.
In this paper, we apply a latent modelling approach to identify subgroups of neighbourhoods based on their profiles of neighbour problems and to assess whether these subgroups are characterised by the degree of social change in the neighbourhood towards the dual processes of gentrification and densification.
The findings show that high intensity problems are associated with both processes, but that class factors of gentrification are more influential than density in accounting for neighbour tensions.
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