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Smart Cities
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Smart Cities

by Negin Minaei
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
166 pages
5h 51m
English
CRC Press
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6 Alphabet Is Here to “Fix” Toronto: Algorithmic Governance in Sidewalk Labs’ Smart City

DOI: 10.1201/9781003272199-9

Anna Artyushina

Contents

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Methodology

6.3 The New Social Ordering

6.4 Algorithmic Governance as Private Governance

6.5 Sidewalk Toronto: The City Planned and Governed by Algorithms

6.6 The City as an Asset

6.7 Conclusion

Notes

References

6.1 Introduction

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 ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781000552089