Overview
- Explores digital pathology, imagination, exclusion, and cooperation in urban human settlements
- Highlights a variety of challenges and opportunities of urban communities in digital built environment
- Discusses how people, urban spaces, and digital technologies are related
Part of the book series: Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements (ACHS)
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This edited collection provides an alternative discourse on cities evolving with physically and virtually networked communities—the ‘digital polis’—and offers a variety of perspectives from the humanities, media studies, geography, architecture, and urban studies. As an emergent concept that encompasses research and practice, the digital polis is oriented toward a counter-mapping of the digital cityscape beyond policing and gatekeeping in physical and virtual gated communities. Considering the digital polis as offering potential for active support of socially just and politically inclusive urban circumstances in ways that mirror the Greek polis, our attention is drawn towards the interweaving of the development of digital technology, urban space, and social dynamics. The four parts of this book address the formation of technosocial subjectivity, real-and-virtual combined urbanity, the spatial dimensions of digital exclusion and inclusion, and the prospect of emancipatoryand empowering digital citizens. Individual chapters cover varied topics on digital feminism, data activism, networked individualism, digital commons, real-virtual communalism, the post-family imagination, digital fortress cities, rights to the smart city, online foodscapes, and open-source urbanism across the globe. Contributors explore the following questions: what developments can be found over recent decades in both physical and virtual communities such as cyberspace, and what will our urban future be like? What is the ‘digital polis’ and what kinds of new subjectivity does it produce? How does digital technology, as well as its virtuality, reshape the city and our spatial awareness of it? What kinds of exclusion and cooperation are at work in communities and spaces in the digital age? Each chapter responds to these questions in its own way, navigating readers through routes toward the digital polis.
Chapter "Introduction - The digital polisand its practices: Beyond gated communities" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Chapter "Introduction - The digital polisand its practices: Beyond gated communities" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Digital Polis and the Formation of Techno-Social Subjectivity
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Real-and-Virtual Combined Urbanity in Seoul and Istanbul
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The Spatial Dimensions of Exclusion in the Digital Polis
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Towards a More Emancipatory and Empowering Digital Polis
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Kon Kim
• He completed his Ph.D. in Urban Design and Planning, the University of Westminster
• He is a chartered member of Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
• He is Research Professor at the Institute for Urban Humanities, the University of Seoul
Dr. Heewon Chung
• She completed her Ph.D. in English Language and Literature, Seoul National University.
• She is Associate Professor at the Institute for Urban Humanities, the University of Seoul.
• He completed his Ph.D. in Urban Design and Planning, the University of Westminster
• He is a chartered member of Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
• He is Research Professor at the Institute for Urban Humanities, the University of Seoul
Dr. Heewon Chung
• She completed her Ph.D. in English Language and Literature, Seoul National University.
• She is Associate Professor at the Institute for Urban Humanities, the University of Seoul.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gated Communities and the Digital Polis
Book Subtitle: Rethinking Subjectivity, Reality, Exclusion, and Cooperation in an Urban Future
Editors: Kon Kim, Heewon Chung
Series Title: Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9685-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-9684-9Published: 05 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-9687-0Published: 05 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-9685-6Published: 04 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2198-2546
Series E-ISSN: 2198-2554
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 208
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Digital Humanities, Cyber-physical systems, IoT, Professional Computing, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban Economics