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Google, through its sister company Side Walk Labs, is experimenting with so-called "smart cities", where urban equipment participates in mass-surveillance of the populations.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/21/google-urban-cities-planning-data
 
Sidewalk family tree
https://twitter.com/adrianshort/status/1118420578271137792
==some choice quotes from Morozov and Bria's RLS paper==
pushing back on the smart city solutionist narrative
case studies'''hashtags''' ##fuckoffgoogle##blocksidewalk Toronto initiative to stop Sidewalk Labs
German language anti-gentrification-related#&#35;‎Mietenwahnsinn‬ Berlin / Germany anti-gentrification initiative#&#35;Verdrängung People forced out of their apartments #&#35;Enteignen Expropriate! the large property owners  '''case studies''' '''Berlin'''<blockquote> --> related initiative "Google is not a good neighbour"
https://www.google-ist-kein-guter-nachbar.de/english-1/actions/
before FOG it was FuckOffGuggenheim... and they really gave up
https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-protests-prove-tolerance-is-a-two-way-street/a-15894900
 
and FuckOffDercon - gentrifying the Volksbühne (a legendary theater in the center of Berlin
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/theater/chris-dercon-quits-volksbuehne.html
</blockquote>'''Barcelona ''' (Morozow & Bria's "Green" Smart City approach<blockquote>http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/wp-content/files_mf/morozovandbria_eng_final55.pdf</blockquote>'''NY''': <blockquote>Hudson Yards is a billionaire’s fantasy city and you never have to leave — provided you can pay for it.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/hudson-yard-billionaires-fantasy-city.html
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'''LA''':
<blockquote>movement against fortress city districts and trickle-down housing
https://medium.com/@LATenantsUnion/dropping-the-hammer-on-yimbyism-97724dfdb6a9
LA:
movement against fortress city districts and trickle-down housing
https://medium.com/@LATenantsUnion/dropping-the-hammer-on-yimbyism-97724dfdb6a9
https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/01/zoning-reform-house-costs-urban-development-gentrification/581677/
</blockquote>'''SF ''' (the original FOG!)<blockquote>techsploitation -
https://qz.com/1293874/protestors-in-san-francisco-are-using-electric-scooters-to-blockade-google-buses/
</blockquote>
 '''privatisation of esential services and infrastructure tales of woe'''<blockquote>generally, it is stubbornly unprofitable to deliver essential services at scale
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/17/the-high-price-we-all-pay-for-the-failures-of-privatisation
Jomo Kwame Sundaram, former economics professor and United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development
 
http://www.ipsnews.net/2016/10/privatization-the-problem-rarely-the-solution/
https://www.networkideas.org/news-analysis/2019/03/promoting-privatization/
"race to the bottom" How Outsourcing Public Services Rewards Corporations and Punishes the Middle Class
 
http://www.inthepublicinterest.org/wp-content/uploads/Race-to-the-bottom.pdf
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'''Public transportation
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<blockquote>https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/privatisation-of-dublin-bus-routes-the-beginning-of-race-to-the-bottom-tds-warn-867983.html
Public transportation
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/privatisation-of-dublin-bus-routes-the-beginning-of-race-to-the-bottom-tds-warn-867983.html
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/16/the-expensive-disaster-that-is-bus-privatisation
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'''Rail
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<blockquote>rail privatisation can only be successful where there is population density, eventually all but the most important stations will be shut down
Rail
rail privatisation can only be successful where there is population density, eventually all but the most important stations will be shut down
https://www.tokyoreview.net/2018/10/japan-railway-privatization/
 
An illusion of success: The consequences of British rail privatisation
 
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0155998214000416
 
The rail billionaires The privatisation of British Rail has proved a disastrous failure. Without big changes, things are going to get worse
 
https://www.economist.com/business/1999/07/01/the-rail-billionaires
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'''Water'''
<blockquote>UN University
Water
UN University
https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/water-privatisation-a-worldwide-failure
Paris remunicipalizes water and saves millions
Smart Citieshttp://www.shareable.net/blog/how-water-utilities-are-returning-to-public-management-in-france</blockquote>
'''Smart Cities'''<blockquote>"competitive urbanism"
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0042098015597162
https://speedbird.wordpress.com/
The trouble with Smart Citieshttps://www.axios.com/smart-cities-toronto-sidewalk-labs-las-vegas-cb0451e5-0b98-46c4-9ba3-4a7a04eb4ca7.html Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poorhttps://www.fastcompany.com/90317495/another-tax-on-the-poor-surrendering-privacy-for-survival </blockquote>'''Songdo''' <blockquote>https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/business/article/2137838/south-koreas-smart-city-songdo-not-quite-smart-enough 
http://gjss.org/sites/default/files/issues/chapters/papers/GJSS%20Vol%2012-2%201%20Benedikt_0.pdf
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'''precrime'''
 
<blockquote>https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530123-600-pre-crime-software-recruited-to-track-gang-of-thieves/
 
precrime
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530123-600-pre-crime-software-recruited-to-track-gang-of-thieves/
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/jun/25/predicting-crime-lapd-los-angeles-police-data-analysis-algorithm-minority-report
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'''politicians raising concerns
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<blockquote>https://twitter.com/lydia_kou
politicians raising concerns
https://twitter.com/lydia_kou
http://www.creativespacesandcities.com/
</blockquote>'''comic relief'''<blockquote>https://internetofshit.net/soon</blockquote>
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