The Digital City and Mediated Urban Ecologies

Through an examination of the digital technological initiatives and programs in three U.S. cities (New York City, San Antonio, and Seattle), this book unpacks some of the rhetoric around the recent phenomenon of the "digital city". Scott considers how digital technologies are increasingly built into the logic and organization of urban spaces and argues that while each city articulates ideals such as those of open democracy, civic engagement, efficient governance, and enhanced security, competing capitalist interests attached to many of these digital technological programs make the "digital city" problematic.