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Part of the Theory, Culture and Society book series. Thrift is a leading authority on human geography and the book aims to be a provocative intervention in current debates about cities, injecting fresh ideas into urban scholarship. The book takes an innovative approach in that its focus is on the violence done not just in but by the city. It is part social theory, part polemic, part primer for taking practical action.
The Urban World
The Urban World
There is much talk nowadays of ‘sentient’ cities (Thrift, 2014). Usually associated with the loading up of cities with information and communications technology, and especially the plentiful use of big data combined with numerous little algorithms, each of them with their different filtering logics and probable associations, cities are apparently starting to become smarter. In one account, all that this means is that little algorithms are able to link people into ever larger networks of communication, thereby producing a permanently on ‘ambient intimacy’ (Ratti and Claudel, 2016) forged through all manner of prosthetic devices, new forms of citizenship and a general reorganization of the realm of movement so as to produce maximally efficient flows. In another account, cities are ...
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