Informational Peripheries – Rethinking the urban in a digital age
‘Informational peripheries’ are a combination of digital, material, territorial, infrastructural and social marginalisations that emerge from informational control, redlining, manipulation and blockading. This book argues that in a digital age, … Continue reading
Geographies of Digital Exclusion: Data and Inequality
Today’s urban environments are layered with data and algorithms that fundamentally shape how we perceive and move through space. But are our digitally dense environments continuing to amplify inequalities rather … Continue reading
The informational periphery: territory, logistics and people in the margins of a digital age
This paper examines new configurations of the urban periphery in a digital age. It moves beyond current scholarship in urban and regional studies which points to the emergence of suburbia … Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence, Globalization, and Strategies for Economic Development
Anton Korinek & Joseph E. Stiglitz – Progress in artificial intelligence and related forms of automation technologies threatens to reverse the gains that developing countries and emerging markets have experienced … Continue reading
What Do Platforms Do? Understanding the Gig Economy
The rapid growth of the platform economy has provoked scholarly discussion of its consequences for the nature of work and employment. We identify four major themes in the literature on … Continue reading
Smart City Governance in Developing Countries
[Open access] Smart cities that make broad use of digital technologies have been touted as possible solutions for the population pressures faced by many cities in developing countries and may … Continue reading
Harnessing local innovation to address the global housing crisis
The focus of the report “Rethinking Housing Policies Harnessing local innovation to address the global housing crisis” is not so much on what local governments should do about housing, but … Continue reading
Smart city making? The spread of ICT-driven plans and infrastructures in Nairobi
Since the late 2000s, the city of Nairobi in Kenya has become a focal point of large-scale and ambitious technology-driven city making processes and ambitions. In this study, we draw … Continue reading
The Age of Perplexity – Rethinking the World We Knew
The technological revolution and globalization have opened up what this book refers to as “The Age of Perplexity”. Perplexity in the face of changes that affect not only our lives, … Continue reading
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