Smart Spaces, Information Processing, and the Question of Intelligence

Lynch, Casey R.; Casino, Vincent J. Del

doi:10.1080/24694452.2019.1617103

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“…This definition usefully foregrounds the notion of desire, and thus, implicitly, the human, although it need not necessarily preclude the machinic possibilities enabled by our robotic futures. Put another way, we are often discussing human “intelligence augmented” (IA) as much as we are discussing “artificial intelligence” (AI) (see Lynch and Del Casino ).…”

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“…It does less, though, to think through the reimagination of human–non‐human relations, subjectivities, and potentialities that come to be possible in a world already populated by robotic possibilities. It also shies away from fully interrogating the ways in which these relations are altering meanings of the concept of human intelligence or cognition (Lynch and Del Casino ). That is why a turn to robotics—the spaces of algorithmic logic (Crampton ; Crampton and Miller ), the capacity of “the cloud” to manage geopolitical worlds (Amoore ), the impact automation may have on work and life (Richardson and Bissell ; also see Richardson ), and more generally the meaning of robots and robotic systems within the confines of critical urban studies in human geography (Macrorie et al ) and subfields, such as political ecology (e.g.…”

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The Social Life of Robots: The Politics of Algorithms, Governance, and Sovereignty

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This symposium aims to broaden the way scholars theorise and empirically treat the increasingly complex relationships between robots and social life, especially in the context of our historically anthropocentric human geographies. The authors of this symposium engage a range of diverse epistemological, ontological, and methodological commitments, but all in some way address the power dynamics and shifting political economies involved in human–robotic interactions as well as possibilities for resisting and overcoming particular forms of domination and oppression. At the same time, the papers present new avenues for conceptualising the rise of robots and robotics and the everyday socio‐spatial relations of contemporary algorithmic life. In a rapidly evolving present and future, where life is increasingly managed in relation to algorithmic imaginaries and automated fantasies, these papers demonstrate the potential for geographers to make significant interventions and contributions to investigate the limits, contradictions, and messy contingencies of socio‐technical assemblages, to trace the shifting spatialities and temporalities of the geographies of algorithmic governance, and to envision radical democratic, post‐capitalist, emancipatory alternatives. These futures are unlikely to be “robot free”, so the question remains how will we build a future set of geographies that acknowledges this reality while also claiming space for the diverse and rich expansion of all forms of life, both human and non‐human?

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“…Urban computing and intelligence (e.g., Bibri 2021a;Bibri and Krogstie 2017;Lynch and Del Casino Jr 2020;Ji, Zheng and Li 2016;Liu et a. 2017;Zheng et al 2014;Zheng et al 2015;Zhang and Zheng 2016) has recently attracted significant attention from academia and industry for building data-driven smart sustainable cities of the future.…”

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Data-Driven Smart Sustainable Cities of the Future: New Conceptions of and Approaches to the Spatial Scaling of Urban Form

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Future Cities and Environment

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IntroductionThe increased pressure on cities has lead to a stronger need to build sustainable cities that last. Designing sustainable cities of the future, educated by the lessons of the past and anticipating the challenges of the future, entails articulating a multi-scalar vision and following key principles-energy, ecology, infrastructure, waste, water, livability, mobility, accessibility, economy, and culturewhile responding to macro-shifts along the way. These principles are at the core of urban sustainability, which represents an ideal outcome in the sum of all the goals of development planning, on which there is widespread consensus with trade-offs and conflicts when it comes to making decisions. Indeed, research in the field of sustainable urban form, especially compact cities and eco-cities, has, over the last two decades, produced contradictory, uncertain, weak, non-conclusive, and questionable results (e.g.,

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“…family, neighbourhood or cultural groups, religious and political organisations) also need to advance in sync the values and habits that support good citizenship with the use and development of technology. Besides, SC scholarship urges attention to ‘the multiple forms of intelligence made possible by innovations in information processing and to the ways in which particular intelligences are prioritised – as others might be neglected or suppressed – through the production of smart spaces’ (Lynch and Del Casino, 2019: 1). This encourages a shift ‘from a technology-intensive to a knowledge-intensive smart urbanism’ (McFarlane and Söderström, 2017: 1).…”

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Latin American smart cities: Between worlding infatuation and crawling provincialising

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2020

Urban Studies

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Smart city initiatives in Latin America aim to harness information and communication technologies to make urban service provision and management more efficient, transparent and user-friendly. Latin American cities have been relatively slow to adopt such initiatives, but there is inter- and intra-urban variety in the region. We offer illustrative vignettes of Rio de Janeiro, Santiago and Medellín, which have experimented with different formats for smart city programme design, implementation and management. While top-down and flashier smart city projects in these cities reflect worlding aspirations on the part of urban elites, mixed and bottom-up approaches serve to provincialise and often informalise the initiatives in manners that destabilise elitism and more equitably distribute costs and benefits. One of the biggest challenges these cities share in developing smarter initiatives is inequality, given that most interventions are located in or benefit higher-income areas and actors. As instruments to provincialise the discourses and practices of smart cityness in the region, we propose that cities adopt the ‘6-Es smart cities framework’ (efficiency, economy, ecology, equity, education and engagement) and mobilise public–private– people partnerships within city plans and implementation processes.

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Smart Spaces, Information Processing, and the Question of Intelligence

Cited by 33 publications

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The Social Life of Robots: The Politics of Algorithms, Governance, and Sovereignty

The Social Life of Robots: The Politics of Algorithms, Governance, and Sovereignty

Data-Driven Smart Sustainable Cities of the Future: New Conceptions of and Approaches to the Spatial Scaling of Urban Form

Latin American smart cities: Between worlding infatuation and crawling provincialising

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