Contents
Foreword: The Towers in the World, the World in the Towers β’ Katerina Cizek
Foreword: When Localities Go Global β’ Saskia Sassen
Introduction β’ Deborah Cowen, Alexis Mitchell, Emily Paradis, Brett Story
TORONTO
Digital Debt in a Precarious City β’ Emily Paradis, Heather Frise
Torontoβs Unsecure(d) Urban Debtscape β’ Alan Walks
Automating Social Inequality β’ Krystle Maki
ACORNβs Campaign for Affordable Access β’ Judy Duncan, ACORN
Transmutations β’ Nehal El-Hadi
SECURITY AND SURVEILLANCE
Digital Borders and Urban Worlds β’ Stephen Graham
Audre Lordeβs File and June Jordanβs Skyrise β’ Simone Browne
Policing the Future(s) β’ R. Josh Scannell
Policing Borders through Sound β’ Anja Kanngieser
Big Data Meet Location Monitoring β’ James Kilgore
Digital Apartheid β’ Visualizing Impact
MUMBAI
Mumbai Rising, Buildings Falling β’ Emily Paradis, Brett Story, Deborah Cowen
On βMarket-Friendlyβ Planning in Mumbai β’ Hussain Indorewala, Shweta Wag
Kashaf Siddique on Being Precariously Home in the Suburbs β’ Deborah Cowen, Kashaf Siddique
Dispatch from Mumbai β’ Deborah Cowen, Paramita Nath
#WhyLoiter β’ Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan
SHIFTING AND SCRIPTING URBAN LIVES
High-Altitude Protests and Necropolitical Digits β’ Ju Hui Judy Han
Terabytes of Love β’ Indu Vashist
The Most Hated Woman in Israel β’ Shaka McGlotten
DIY WI-FI β’ Heather Frise
Network Dislocations β’ Nicole Starosielski
SINGAPORE
The Labour of Global City Building β’ Alexis Mitchell, Deborah Cowen
Skyline of Dreams β’ Grace Baey
Sunny Island Set in the Sea β’ Charmaine Chua
Singapore as βBest Homeβ β’ Natalie Oswin
Not another Cinderella Story β’ Symon James-Wilson
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index