Description: This course critically examines cities and urban futures within the context of a digital world. Students engage with the concept of “having the world at your fingertips” by problematizing platform urbanism and the digitization of everyday life. The course provides students an in-depth understanding the imaginary of the smart city as a strategy to improve the competitive positioning of cities in the digital age of city-building. The solutions couched in this techno-utopian imaginary are spatialized and packaged as edgy and ultra-connected visions that fuse the digital layer with urban development or as scientific tangible initiatives aligned with development goals of resilience, innovation, and sustainability. Students investigate different interventions that can contribute to more inclusive and just urban futures

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