Splintering by Proxy
A Reflection on the Spatial Impacts and Distributed Agency of Platform Urbanism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15319002 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nancy Odendaal (0000-0003-0706-1247, University of Cape Town, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-27 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Urban Technology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1063-0732 • E-ISSN: 1466-1853 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10630732.2021.2007204 |
| OpenAlex | W4210481755 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 23 |
Insight into the socio-technical dynamics of infrastructure unbundling and the impact on urban space is perhaps one of the most enduring conceptual legacies of the Splintering Urbanism thesis. Expanding the analysis of urban infrastructure beyond the material has enabled a reconsideration of the socio-material dynamics contained therein and the actors represented. Two decades later, digital disruptive commercial enterprises such as Uber and Airbnb have broadened this playing field as Silicon Valley enters the local urban realm. This piece reflects on the extent to which this reconfiguration of urban services, media, and technology affect the market forces and range of choices available to urban dwellers. By considering the relationships between platforms and space and the infrastructural elements of such, the paper concludes on the notion of “splintering by proxy:” how the use of digital platforms enrolls the urban dweller as an active contributor in the continued shaping of urban space through distributed agency. This creates opportunities for emancipatory practices that could contribute to more inclusive cities
Agency (philosophy · Civil engineering · Economic geography · Field (mathematics · Gentrification · Geography · Political science · Realm · Social science · Sociology · Urban planning · Urban space · Urbanism · Engineering · Sharing Economy and Platforms · Smart Cities and Technologies · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Architecture
Island platforms and the hyper-terrestrialisation of Singapore’s smart city-state
Beyond informality
Smart urbanism in Africa
The state-led platformisation of financial services
Critical Junctures of Technological Mediation
Freight logistics and the city
Infrastructuration and spatial governance
Waze seating in the control room
Seeing like AI? AI urbanism reconsidered through a critical posthumanist perspective
Platformization in the southern city
From platform capitalism to strategic place-based platformisation
Seeing like a driver
Variegated Platform Urbanism
Splintering Urbanism
Platform Urbanism
Making of high‐tech H yderabad
Infrastructure studies meet platform studies in the age of Google and Facebook
Incompleteness of urban infrastructures in transition
Regulate, replicate, and resist – the conjunctural geographies of platform urbanism
Smart city making? The spread of ICT-driven plans and infrastructures in Nairobi
Smart urbanism? ICTs for water and electricity supply in Nairobi
Splintering Urbanism or Split Agendas? Examining the Spatial Distribution of Technology Access in Relation to ICT Policy in Durban, South Africa
Differentiating networked services in Cape Town
Splintered networks
Negotiating the platform pivot
Forefronts of the Sharing Economy
Airbnb, buy-to-let investment and tourism-driven displacement
We Live on Estimates
Airbnb and the rent gap
Platform mobilities and the production of urban space
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |