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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