Metropolitics

Centering Equity in the Smart-Cities Project Dialogue

Margaret Cowell — 2020-10-13T05:00:00Z

In Uneven Innovation, Jennifer Clark argues that the technological innovations behind “smart cities” can cultivate and even exacerbate uneven development, and must be assessed in the context of equity.
Have you ever wondered about the long-term effects of the small-scale technological innovations that have sprouted up in cities across the world? Dockless bikes, ICT-integrated parking systems, and even Wi‑Fi-enabled public trash cans are just three of the many examples that Jennifer Clark uses

- Reviews / smart city, information technology, technology, inequalities, entrepreneurialism

New York Tech Dossier: Insecure Frontier Jobs? Staying Relevant in New York's Tech Ecosystem

Max Papadantonakis — 2020-01-21T06:00:00Z

“Frontier” jobs in digital technologies promise lucrative career paths, but Max Papadantonakis's research suggests that these paths are insecure.
---- Series: New York Tech Dossier: The Dark Side of New York's Tech Economy In the past five years, New York has become one of a few cities in the US with a large concentration of highly paid “frontier” jobs. Frontier jobs involve producing, installing, maintaining and deploying new generations of digital technologies, and they have become

- Essays / tech economy, tech sector, Big Tech, information technology, United States, New York

New York Tech Dossier: The Declining Significance of Proximity in Venture Capital Investments

Joanna Dressel — 2020-01-14T06:00:00Z

Venture capital investment in New York City has increased over the last decade, contributing to the development of the tech industry in the city. However, New York–based venture capital firms (VCs) increasingly invest outside the city. Joanna Dressel examines the declining significance of geographic proximity between VCs and private companies and asks what this could mean for urban economic development and spatial inequality in the new economy.
---- Series: New York Tech Dossier: The Dark

- Essays / information technology, tech economy, Silicon Alley, tech sector, venture capital, United States, New York

New York Tech Dossier: “Innovation Districts” in New York: Contentious Geographies of Growth

Sharon Zukin — 2020-01-07T06:30:00Z

Sharon Zukin analyzes how city government in New York has supported concentrations of tech firms—“innovation districts”—and how communities have pushed back.
---- Series: New York Tech Dossier: The Dark Side of New York's Tech Economy Since the Great Recession of 2008, New York City has emerged among the biggest “startup ecosystems” in the world (Mulas and Gastelu-Iturri 2016; Startup Genome 2019). Public- and private-sector investment, growth in tech jobs, and agglomeration of companies and

- Essays / Big Tech, tech economy, tech sector, information technology, United States, New York, innovation, innovation districts

The digital city: challenges for the future

Serge Wachter & translated by Oliver Waine — 2012-05-16T05:44:23Z

What is the impact of digital technology on the city and its architecture? Serge Wachter analyses the way in which new information and communication technologies (NICTs) influence not so much the physical form of cities as the individual and social experiences of their inhabitants, and explores the different channels that are leading to a dematerialisation of public space and urbanity.
The digital city is in vogue and those local councils and other public bodies that have not launched

- Debates / architecture, public space, digital city, NICTs, information technology, infrastructures, infrastructure