Jathan Sadowski
11-12-2019
The “smart city” is not a coherent concept or an actually existing entity, but a misleading euphemism for a corporately controlled urban future. The technologies and policies associated with “smart cities” aren't aimed at serving citizen-customers and rendering life efficient; instead they treat the city like a battlespace, redeploying information systems originally created for military purposes for urban policing. In reality, the smart city's urban command centers are built primarily for police, not planners, let alone the public.