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From the control room to the Googleplex: ‘Innovation needs a where’

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Big Tech companies like Google have spread their priorities from city to city by integrating their products into local infrastructure and forming new public–private partnerships to manage them. This article asks what happens when co-dependence fails, and briefly reviews attempts to describe and label emerging urban-tech regimes.

Source: Urban Studies

DOI: 10.1177/00420980251357551

Author: Sharon Zukin

Institutions: The Graduate Center, CUNY, City University of New York, Brooklyn College

Language: English

Topic: Smart Cities and Technologies

Subfield: Media Technology

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Industry, innovation and infrastructure, Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W4413287482

FWCI: 0.438

Cites: 15

Cited by: 1

Related to: 10