Programming Nature as Infrastructure in the Smart Forest City
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8091029 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Gabrys (0000-0001-5545-2459, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 13-19 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Urban Technology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1063-0732 • E-ISSN: 1466-1853 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10630732.2021.2004067 |
| PMID | 35250253 |
| OpenAlex | W4205131281 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 20 |
Smart cities typically involve the digitalization of transport and buildings, energy and communications. Yet urban natures are also becoming increasingly digitalized, whether through processes of monitoring, automation, mitigation, or augmentation. This text considers what "splintering urbanisms" materialize through programming nature as infrastructure. By focusing specifically on smart urban forests, I suggest that the management logics of smart infrastructures attempt to program and transform vegetation and its ecologies into uniquely efficient and responsive urban organisms. In the process, these programs of efficiency have the potential to exacerbate extractive economies and social inequalities that amplify and materialize through the "Internet of nature
Architectural engineering · Automation · Building automation · Business · Computer security · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Internet of Things · Process (computing · Smart city · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Engineering · Environmental Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Responsibility, care and repair in/of AI
Actually existing smart forests
Conservation data infrastructures
Critical Forest Studies
Ecologising the Research Image
Decolonising innovation in sustainability transitions for pluriversal justice and wellbeing
Digitally Mediated Nature
Friction-free cities and the rise of contactless and robotised delivery infrastructure
Thinking food delivery platforms infrastructurally
Does the construction of smart cities make cities green? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China
Staged ecologies
Green resilience
Making the mos(s)t of nature? Cleantech, smart nature-based solutions, and the 'rendering investable' of urban moss
Infrastructuring Gardens
Splintering Urbanism
Program Earth
Infrastructuring Environments
Nature as infrastructure
Natural capital must be defended
Programming Environments
Banking Nature? The Spectacular Financialisation of Environmental Conservation
Smart forests and data practices
Political Infrastructures
The commons
Beyond Wiindigo Infrastructure
The Internet of Nature
Infrastructures of the Imagined Island
The Smart City Conundrum for Social Justice
The Ethnography of Infrastructure
People as Infrastructure
The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure
Digitalizing the State
Introduction
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |