March 2022
Intermediate to advanced
166 pages
5h 51m
English
Anna Artyushina
6.4 Algorithmic Governance as Private Governance
6.5 Sidewalk Toronto: The City Planned and Governed by Algorithms
In October 2017, Alphabet and the Government of Canada announced that the city of Toronto had been chosen as the site for Alphabet’s first smart city. The press release envisioned Sidewalk Toronto/Quayside1 as an exemplary community that would employ digital technology to tackle the issues of urban growth:
Sidewalk Labs and Waterfront Toronto announced ...