02177nam a2200313 c 4500 BV050775284 DE-604 00000000000000.0 t| 260612s2026 xxua||| |||| 00||| eng d 9780520413245 cloth 978-0-520-41324-5 9780520413252 paperback 978-0-520-41325-2 DE-604 ger rda Baykurt, Burcu Verfasser (DE-588)1237236789 aut Smart as a city the politics of test-bed urbanism Burcu Baykurt Oakland University of California Press [2026] xiv, 213 Seiten Illustrationen Introduction -- Becoming a test-bed -- Technocracy on a hill -- The ignorant city -- (Dis)connecting the smart city -- Spinning wheels -- Avoiding the F-word -- Conclusion. "Smart as a City examines the intersection of hardware, software, and the built environment to provide a rich ethnographic investigation into how smartness is received and negotiated by different groups in a midsize US city. Burcu Baykurt follows the work of civic entrepreneurs, local residents, and city officials in Kansas City, Missouri, where Google tested a citywide gigabit service and the local government launched a series of smart city pilot projects in transportation, public housing, and municipal services. Providing a novel glimpse into an actually existing smart city, Baykurt redefines smartness as a collective effort to spotlight a city's enduring problems and to align local issues with the often-buggy, partially developed systems offered by tech companies. She shows that the success of matching civic concerns with flawed tech systems is hard won and ambiguous, and that the techniques of data capitalism extract rather than solve urban inequalities"-- Provided by publisher Smart cities / Social aspects / Missouri / Kansas City / 21st century oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-036119670 (DE-599)KXP1945658282 eng xxu XD-US DE-11 txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index