09 October, 2025

Special Issue of Urban Studies Journal: Google, a major stakeholder in local governance?

Exciting reading this month from Sage's Urban Studies Journal, featuring a Special Issue, titled, Google, a major stakeholder in local governance?. These include a fabulous set of articles pulled together by Guest Editors, Antoine Courmont & Burcu Baykurt:
  • Antoine Courmont & Burcu Baykurt, Editorial: "Google, a major stakeholder in local governance?" 
  • Christo Sims "Putting the digital growth machine in place: Shifting growth genres in Silicon Valley’s urban politics" 
  • Constance Carr & Karinne Madron "Post-political clouds: Suspended failure in Google’s data centre development" 
  • Burcu Baykurt "Google urbanism 2010–2020: From infrastructural control to growing bit by bit" 
  • Florian Koch & Sarah Beyer "A gift from heaven: Google’s Environmental Insights Explorer and its tech-down approach to monitor urban sustainability beyond local contexts" 
  • Laure Guimbail "Navigating frictions in digital urbanism: Google Maps, public transportation and collaborative data-driven mobility governance" 
  • Ignacio Pérez Karich "Waze seating in the control room: Enacting the data bricolage in urban traffic management in Santiago de Chile" 
  • Antoine Courmont "Locked in a data imperative? French local businesses faced with Google Maps" 
  • Sharon Zukin "From the control room to the Googleplex: ‘Innovation Needs a Where’" 
  • Nancy Odendaal "Infrastructuration and spatial governance: Why Google is not just another service provider" 

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