Dillon Mahmoudi (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) and Alan Wiig (University of Florida) comment on the contributions of the
Buildings & Cities special issue Data Politics in the Built Environment. This
commentary considers how tech corporates such as Amazon are changing urban life
and creating new forms of automated surveillance.
Miguel Valdez(Open
University) comments on the contributions of the Buildings & Cities special
issueData Politics in the Built Environment. This commentary considers an additional
perspective and provides an additional foundation to support more progressive
data politics in the built environment. The
three Aristotelian virtues of ‘techne’, ‘episteme’ and ‘phronesis’ and
epistemic justiceprovide suitable lenses to critique smart city politics.
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The Data Politics of Tech Corporations
Dillon Mahmoudi (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) and Alan Wiig (University of Florida) comment on the contributions of the Buildings & Cities special issue Data Politics in the Built Environment. This commentary considers how tech corporates such as Amazon are changing urban life and creating new forms of automated surveillance.
Phronesis and Epistemic Justice in Data-Driven Built Environments
Miguel Valdez (Open University) comments on the contributions of the Buildings & Cities special issue Data Politics in the Built Environment. This commentary considers an additional perspective and provides an additional foundation to support more progressive data politics in the built environment. The three Aristotelian virtues of ‘techne’, ‘episteme’ and ‘phronesis’ and epistemic justice provide suitable lenses to critique smart city politics.