Autorentext

David Wilson is Professor of Geography, Urban Planning and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on the restructuring of cities in the Global North and Global South and the urban transformation of the U.S. Rustbelt. He has published widely in many journals that span geography and the social sciences. His most recent book is Chicago's Redevelopment Machine and Blues Clubs (Palgrave-MacMillan).

Elvin Wyly is Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, unceded x m k y m (Musqueam) territory, Canada. He studies the spatial dynamics of market processes and public policy with a special emphasis on racial discrimination in mortgage lending, the intensification of gentrification, and the algorithmic reanimation of 19th-century social Darwinist perversions of evolutionary science. Recent essays and articles have appeared in many social science journals and books.

Klappentext

This innovative book applies the metaphor of Dracula to understand a highly controversial reality that marks so many cities today: how the rage of smart city development and growth proceeds, is organized, and produces benefits for some and afflicts others.

Inhalt

1. Prologue: The Haunt of Dracula and This Book 2. The Labyrinthe of Dracula Urbanism 3. The Frame: Regimes of City Building 4. Miami: A Global North City Smartening 5. Mexico City: A Global South City Smartening 6. Resisting Dracula Urbanism and Smart City Development 7. A Complicated City Building: Dracula-Itis on the March