Overview
- Contextualizes the library within the physical space of the city, and within the broader policy strategies and governmental narratives shaping contemporary urban development
- Draws upon detailed ethnographic research with library staff and policymakers across contrasting urban and regional cities in Victoria, and across different municipalities in Melbourne and Singapore
- Provides the first critical accounts of the relationship between libraries and urban planning policy
- Re-orientates smart city scholarship from the bottom-up, illustrating how smart city agendas play out in an everyday space at the interface between government and community
- Offers a very immediate view of the current state of libraries by drawing upon interviews with a range of library professionals and policymakers conducted between 2015-2017
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About this book
This book argues that the library’s transformation is deeply connected to a broader project of urban redevelopment and the transition to a knowledge economy. In particular, libraries have become entangled in visions of the smart city, where densely networked, ubiquitous connectivity promises urban prosperity built on efficiency, innovation, and new avenues for civic participation.
Drawing on theoretical analysis and interviews with library professionals, policymakers,and users, this book examines the inevitable tensions emerging when a public institution dedicated to universal access to knowledge and a shared public culture intersects with the technology-driven, entrepreneurialist ideals of the smart city.
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About the authors
Danielle Wyatt is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research examines the public life of culture as expressed across institutions, cultural policy, public space, and everyday practices.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Public Libraries in the Smart City
Authors: Dale Leorke, Danielle Wyatt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2805-3
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-2804-6Published: 20 October 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-2805-3Published: 10 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 135
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Library Science, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urbanism