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Cities and the Digital Revolution

Aligning technology and humanity

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Authors:
  1. Zaheer Allam

    1. The Port Louis Development Initiative (PLDI), Port Louis, Mauritius

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  • Warns of the hidden agendas behind Smart City technologies

  • Addresses questions around urbanisation and big data in cities

  • Explores the ways technology has changed the ways cities work

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Data as the New Driving Gears of Urbanization

    • Zaheer Allam
    Pages 1-29

  3. Urban Chaos and the AI Messiah

    • Zaheer Allam
    Pages 31-60

  4. Digital Urban Networks and Social Media

    • Zaheer Allam
    Pages 61-83

  5. Privatization and Privacy in the Digital City

    • Zaheer Allam
    Pages 85-106

  6. On Culture, Technology and Global Cities

    • Zaheer Allam
    Pages 107-124

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 125-132
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About this book

This book explores the emergence and development of data in cities. It exposes how Information Communication Technology (ICT) corporations seeking to capitalize on cities developing needs for urban technologies have contributed to many of the issues we are faced with today, including urbanization, centralization of wealth and climate change. Using several case studies, the book provides examples of the, in part, detrimental effects ICT driven ‘Smart City’ solutions have had and will have on the human characteristics that contribute to the identity and sense of belonging innate to many of our cities. 


The rise in Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and technologies like social media, has changed how people interact with and in cities, and Allam discusses of how these changes require planners, engineers and other urban professionals to adjust their approach. The main question the book seeks to address is ‘how can we use emerging technologies to recalibrate our cities and ensure increased livability, whilst also effectively dealing with their associate challenges?’ This is an ongoing conversation, but one that requires extensive thought as it has extensive consequences. This book will be of interest to students, academics, professionals and policy makers across a broad range of subjects including urban studies, architecture and STS, geography and social policy.



Authors and Affiliations

  • The Port Louis Development Initiative (PLDI), Port Louis, Mauritius

    Zaheer Allam

About the author

Zaheer Allam is based in Mauritius and works as an Urban Strategist for the Port Louis Development Initiative (PLDI) and the Global Creative Leadership Initiative. He received his PhD from Curtin University, Australia, holds an MBA from Anglia Ruskin University, UK and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Architectural Science from Curtin University, Australia. Zaheer is the African Representative of the International Society of Biourbanism (ISB) and a member of the Advisory Circle of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA). He was elevated, by the President of Mauritius, to the rank of Officer of the Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean (OSK); the highest distinct order of Merit in Mauritius.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cities and the Digital Revolution

  • Book Subtitle: Aligning technology and humanity

  • Authors: Zaheer Allam

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29800-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29799-2Published: 28 October 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-29800-5Published: 16 October 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 132

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Science and Technology Studies, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)

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