Mouton, Morgan 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3324-4808
(2024).
Seeing like an urban service operator: making urban circulations of matter and energy legible in the digital age
In:
Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities.
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2024
.
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., Cheltenham, pp. 340-352.
Résumé
Urban services are increasingly being integrated with digital technologies, under the auspices of the ‘smart city’(Marvin et al., 2015; Picon, 2018). This trend has been brandished as a solution for more efficient resource management by industry actors and consulting firms (eg, Ballard et al., 2018; Deloitte, 2019). For the proponents of ‘smart utilities’, digital technologies improve services for end-users, allow for real-time control of urban metabolism and increase overall system efficiency. By contrast, a growing number of in-depth analyses in cities of the global North (Levenda et al., 2015) and South alike (Guma, 2019; Pilo’, 2021) have emphasised that the depoliticised vision offered by the proponents of smart cities conceals highly political questions that have to do with democracy, citizenship and socio-spatial justice (Sadowski and Levenda, 2020). This chapter aligns with such calls to re-politicise urban service provision. More specifically, I will focus here on energy, water and waste-management services, and explore the ways in which they are undergoing forms of ‘digitalisation’.
| Type de document: | Chapitre de livre |
|---|---|
| Mots-clés libres: | Urban services; digital technologies; smart city; energy, water and waste-management services |
| Centre: | Centre Urbanisation Culture Société |
| Date de dépôt: | 17 juin 2024 20:16 |
| Dernière modification: | 17 juin 2024 20:16 |
| URI: | https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/15698 |
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