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Shortlink for this page: https://is.gd/bl0ckS
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==
http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/wp-content/files_mf/morozovandbria_eng_final55.pdf
==assembly of related resources, please expand!==
cities for citizens
sustainable and dynamic urbanism, materialist political economy for cities under adverse circumstances of rapid privatisation, speculation , gentrification and segregation.
pushing back on the smart city solutionist narrative
'''hashtags'''
##fuckoffgoogle
##blocksidewalk Toronto initiative to stop Sidewalk Labs
German language anti-gentrification-related
##Mietenwahnsinn Berlin / Germany anti-gentrification initiative
##Verdrängung People forced out of their apartments
##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
</blockquote>
'''LA''':
<blockquote>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
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<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
</blockquote>
'''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
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/16/the-expensive-disaster-that-is-bus-privatisation
</blockquote>
'''Rail
'''
<blockquote>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
</blockquote>
'''Water'''
<blockquote>UN University
https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/water-privatisation-a-worldwide-failure
Paris remunicipalizes water and saves millions
http://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://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/dec/17/truth-smart-city-destroy-democracy-urban-thinkers-buzzphrase
https://planning.org/planning/2019/mar/smartcities/
Adam Greenfield : Against the Smart City
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/227-tasting-data-smart-cities-craft-and-design-facts-on-fax-1.2847907/against-the-smart-city-1.2847908
https://speedbird.wordpress.com/
The trouble with Smart Cities
https://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 poor
https://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
</blockquote>
'''precrime'''
<blockquote>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
</blockquote>
'''politicians raising concerns
'''
<blockquote>https://twitter.com/lydia_kou
http://www.creativespacesandcities.com/
</blockquote>
'''comic relief
'''
<blockquote>https://internetofshit.net/soon
</blockquote>
