 Innovation for Whom? City Experiments and the Redefinition of Urban DemocracyBrice Laurent ()
Chapter Chapter 12 in Innovation Beyond Technology, 2019, pp 265-283 from Springer Abstract: Abstract As “smart cities” or “eco cities” proliferate, innovation has become a central component of urban policy. This chapter discusses the politics of innovation in urban contexts by focusing on city experiment, that is, experiments conducted in the city and with the city. The analysis of city experiments is a path for displacing oppositions between (1) the stability of urban space and the “disruption” introduced by innovation, (2) “technical” innovation and “social” innovation, (3) the local life of cities and the global flows of technologies and capital. Instead, one can contrast various propositions for organizing innovation in the city. The example of innovation policy in San Francisco and its associated controversies shows that these propositions offer various imaginations of the beneficiaries of innovation, and eventually different understandings of urban democracy. In particular, the imagination of the city as a place for real-time experiments and the increasing role of global investment can be contrasted with other propositions, which make collective life the means and ends of urban innovation. Date: 2019 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:crechp:978-981-13-9053-1_12 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-9053-1_12 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Creative Economy from Springer |
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