The Labour of Global City Building

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Foreword xv
5. Toronto
6. Digital Debt in a Precarious City 21
7. Toronto’s Unsecure(d) Urban Debtscape 46
8. Automating Social Inequality 57
9. ACORN’s Campaign for Affordable Access 65
10. Transmutations 73
11. Security and Surveillance
12. Digital Borders and Urban Worlds 85
13. Audre Lorde’s File and June Jordan’s Skyrise 89
14. Policing the Future(s) 94
15. Policing Borders through Sound 102
16. Big Data Meet Location Monitoring 108
17. Digital Apartheid 112
18. Mumbai
19. Mumbai Rising, Buildings Falling 117
20. On “Market-Friendly” Planning in Mumbai 145
21. Kashaf Siddique on Being Precariously Home in the Suburbs 153
22. Dispatch from Mumbai 160
23. #WhyLoiter 167
24. Shifting and Scripting Urban Lives
25. High-Altitude Protests and Necropolitical Digits 175
26. Terabytes of Love 179
27. The Most Hated Woman in Israel 186
28. Diy Wi-Fi 194
29. Network Dislocations 200
30. Singapore
31. The Labour of Global City Building 209
32. Skyline of Dreams 233
33. Sunny Island Set in the Sea 238
34. Singapore as “Best Home” 248
35. Not another Cinderella Story 260
36. Acknowledgments 271
37. Contributors 273
38. Index 277