Gated Communities and the Digital Polis: Rethinking Subjectivity, Reality, Exclusion, and Cooperation in an Urban Future

ISBN-13: 9789811996849 / Angielski

Kon Kim; Hee-Won Chung

Opis

This edited collection provides an alternative discourse on cities evolving with physically and virtually networked communities—the ‘digital polis’—and offers a variety of perspectives from the humanities, media studies, geography, architecture, and urban studies. As an emergent concept that encompasses research and practice, the digital polis is oriented toward a counter-mapping of the digital cityscape beyond policing and gatekeeping in physical and virtual gated communities. Considering the digital polis as offering potential for active support of socially just and politically inclusive urban circumstances in ways that mirror the Greek polis, our attention is drawn towards the interweaving of the development of digital technology, urban space, and social dynamics. The four parts of this book address the formation of technosocial subjectivity, real-and-virtual combined urbanity, the spatial dimensions of digital exclusion and inclusion, and the prospect of emancipatory and empowering digital citizens. Individual chapters cover varied topics on digital feminism, data activism, networked individualism, digital commons, real-virtual communalism, the post-family imagination, digital fortress cities, rights to the smart city, online foodscapes, and open-source urbanism across the globe. Contributors explore the following questions: what developments can be found over recent decades in both physical and virtual communities such as cyberspace, and what will our urban future be like? What is the ‘digital polis’ and what kinds of new subjectivity does it produce? How does digital technology, as well as its virtuality, reshape the city and our spatial awareness of it? What kinds of exclusion and cooperation are at work in communities and spaces in the digital age? Each chapter responds to these questions in its own way, navigating readers through routes toward the digital polis.

Chapter "Introduction - The digital polis and its practices: Beyond gated communities" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Spis treści

1. Introduction

2. Psychasthenia and obsessive urban culture in the urban imaginary

3. Spatial governmentality of the everyday: the rise of 'No-Kids Zone' and online misogyny in South Korea

4. Gated communities in three forms: imaginary, real and virtual spaces

5. Tracing the evolution of spatial and digital fortressing of apartment complexes in Seoul

6. Exclusion of the urban poor in urbanization of the digital polis of Seoul

7. Online-based food hubs for community wellbeing: performance of practices and its implications for urban design

8. Third spaces: the social infrastructure of smart cities and communities

O autorze

Dr. Kon Kim

• He completed his Ph.D. in Urban Design and Planning, the University of Westminster 

• He is a chartered member of Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) 

• He is Research Professor at the Institute for Urban Humanities, the University of Seoul

Dr. Heewon Chung

• She completed her Ph.D. in English Language and Literature, Seoul National University.

• She is Associate Professor at the Institute for Urban Humanities, the University of Seoul.