Read the preface to WAYS OF KNOWING CITIES, edited by Laura Kurgan and Dare Brawley. This work considers the role of technology in generating, materializing, and contesting urban epistemologies—from ubiquitous sites of “smart” urbanism to discrete struggles over infrastructural governance to forgotten histories of segregation now naturalized in urban algorithms to exceptional territories of border policing.
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