The Digital City and Mediated Urban Ecologies

Announcement: My book, The Digital City and Mediated Urban Ecologies (Palgrave Macmillan) is now available in print and as an ebook: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319391724. In this book, I examine the phenomenon of the "digital city" in the US by looking at three case studies: New York City, San Antonio, and Seattle. I consider how digital technologies are increasingly built into the logic and organization of urban spaces and argue that while each city articulates ideals such as those of open democracy, civic engagement, efficient governance, and enhanced security, competing capitalist interests attached to many of these digital technological programs make the "digital city" problematic.

best, Kristin Scott