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Matthew Zook
Other affiliations: University of California, Berkeley, Public Policy Institute of California
Bio: Matthew Zook is an academic researcher from University of Kentucky. The author has contributed to research in topics: The Internet & Big data. The author has an hindex of 39, co-authored 95 publications receiving 6974 citations. Previous affiliations of Matthew Zook include University of California, Berkeley & Public Policy Institute of California.
Topics: The Internet, Big data, Social media, Geoweb, Smart city
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline the ways in which information technologies (ITs) were used in the Haiti relief effort, especially with respect to web-based mapping services, focusing on four in particular: CrisisCamp Haiti, OpenStreetMap, Ushahidi and GeoCommons.
Abstract: This paper outlines the ways in which information technologies (ITs) were used in the Haiti relief effort, especially with respect to web-based mapping services. Although there were numerous ways in which this took place, this paper focuses on four in particular: CrisisCamp Haiti, OpenStreetMap, Ushahidi, and GeoCommons. This analysis demonstrates that ITs were a key means through which individuals could make a tangible difference in the work of relief and aid agencies without actually being physically present in Haiti. While not without problems, this effort nevertheless represents a remarkable example of the power and crowdsourced online mapping and the potential for new avenues of interaction between physically distant places that vary tremendously.
697 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline the ways in which information technologies (ITs) were used in the Haiti relief effort, especially with respect to web-based mapping services, focusing on four in particular: CrisisCamp Haiti, OpenStreetMap, Ushahidi and GeoCommons.
Abstract: This paper outlines the ways in which information technologies (ITs) were used in the Haiti relief effort, especially with respect to web-based mapping services. Although there were numerous ways in which this took place, this paper focuses on four in particular: CrisisCamp Haiti, OpenStreetMap, Ushahidi, and GeoCommons. This analysis demonstrates that ITs were a key means through which individuals could make a tangible difference in the work of relief and aid agencies without actually being physically present in Haiti. While not without problems, this effort nevertheless represents a remarkable example of the power and crowdsourced online mapping and the potential for new avenues of interaction between physically distant places that vary tremendously.
568 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the critique of the smart city in its historical and geographical context should be paid to the actually existing smart city, rather than the exceptional or paradigmatic smart cities of Songdo, Masdar and Living PlanIT Valley.
Abstract: This paper grounds the critique of the ‘smart city’ in its historical and geographical context. Adapting Brenner and Theodore’s notion of ‘actually existing neoliberalism’, we suggest a greater attention be paid to the ‘actually existing smart city’, rather than the exceptional or paradigmatic smart cities of Songdo, Masdar and Living PlanIT Valley. Through a closer analysis of cases in Louisville and Philadelphia, we demonstrate the utility of understanding the material effects of these policies in actual cities around the world, with a particular focus on how and from where these policies have arisen, and how they have unevenly impacted the places that have adopted them.
480 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the critique of the smart city in its historical and geographical context should be paid to the actually existing smart city, rather than the exceptional or paradigmatic smart cities of Songdo, Masdar and Living PlanIT Valley.
Abstract: This paper grounds the critique of the ‘smart city’ in its historical and geographical context. Adapting Brenner and Theodore’s notion of ‘actually existing neoliberalism’, we suggest a greater attention be paid to the ‘actually existing smart city’, rather than the exceptional or paradigmatic smart cities of Songdo, Masdar and Living PlanIT Valley. Through a closer analysis of cases in Louisville and Philadelphia, we demonstrate the utility of understanding the material effects of these policies in actual cities around the world, with a particular focus on how and from where these policies have arisen, and how they have unevenly impacted the places that have adopted them.
438 citations
TL;DR: Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge as mentioned in this paper have published a book about software and everyday life, Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (2011).
Abstract: Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life, Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (2011). xiii + 290 pp. US$35.00 (hbk). ISBN 978 0 262 04248 2. This is an important book about a growi...
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TL;DR: In this paper, Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism are discussed. And the history of European ideas: Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 721-722.
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Book Chapter•
01 Jan 1996
TL;DR: In this article, Jacobi describes the production of space poetry in the form of a poetry collection, called Imagine, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, 1996, unpaginated and unedited.
Abstract: ‘The Production of Space’, in: Frans Jacobi, Imagine, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, 1996, unpaginated.
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