Review Essay: Get Smart?!

Leslie Regan Shade

doi:10.15353/joci.v20i1.5713

Review Essay: Get Smart?!

Authors

Leslie Regan Shade Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v20i1.5713

Keywords:

data governance in the city, smart cities, Sidewalk Toronto

Abstract

This review essay considers three books that provide a detailed overview of smart cities and the politics and eventual demise of the proposed Sidewalk Toronto project (2017-2020), an initiative of Waterfront Toronto and Sidewalk Labs, Alphabet’s urban technology company.