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  Vertical (sub)urbanization in Zurich’s northeast: The Valley along the Glatt as both a metaphor and mediating structural elementCarr, Constance  ; in Aguiar, Luis; Senese, Donna; French, Diana (Eds.) The Elgar Companion to Valleys: Social, Economic and Cultural Perspectives (2023) Detailed reference viewed: 175 (1 UL)The Janus face of urbanism led by large digital corporations: Glamorous headquarters and monstrous data centersCarr, Constance ; Madron, Karinne Lynda Presentation (2023) Detailed reference viewed: 102 (2 UL) INURA reflects on Luxembourg - Results of a feedback session with INURAMadron, Karinne Lynda ; Carr, Constance in INURA Bulletin (2023), 33 Detailed reference viewed: 55 (4 UL)Not exactly a CommonWealth of Virginia: The visible and invisible ways Amazon.com drives urban development in the Washington Metro AreaCarr, Constance Presentation (2023) Detailed reference viewed: 51 (2 UL)Challenges of (post) war reconstruction in KyivCarr, Constance ; Kryvets, Olga Presentation (2023) Detailed reference viewed: 75 (1 UL)Imagining resilient urban futures - Digital but not onlyKryvets, Olga ; Carr, Constance Presentation (2023) Detailed reference viewed: 84 (0 UL)Future research interests in digital urbanization – How do Google and Amazon generate relational urban geographies?Carr, Constance Presentation (2023) Detailed reference viewed: 76 (1 UL)Imagining post-war reconstruction fro resilience Kyiv with INURAKryvets, Olga ; Carr, Constance Report (2023) Detailed reference viewed: 87 (1 UL)Urbanization of Zurich - A perspective from LuxembourgCarr, Constance Presentation (2023) Panel discussion: "Zürich in the light of international experiences" with Jorge Peña, Cristina Mattiucci, Gruia Bădescu, Constance Carr, Nataliia Mysak, Hanna Hilbrandt, Andreas Wirz, Richard Wolff – ... [more ▼] Panel discussion: "Zürich in the light of international experiences" with Jorge Peña, Cristina Mattiucci, Gruia Bădescu, Constance Carr, Nataliia Mysak, Hanna Hilbrandt, Andreas Wirz, Richard Wolff – moderated by Christian Schmid [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 87 (3 UL)INURA as a village - urban research and action in urgent timesCarr, Constance ; Madron, Karinne Lynda Report (2023) Detailed reference viewed: 69 (2 UL)Reflections from the 30th Anniversary Conference of the International Network for Urban Research and Action (INURA) in Luxembourg, 'Small State Big Transitions'Carr, Constance ; Madron, Karinne Lynda Report (2023) Detailed reference viewed: 71 (7 UL)From protest to imagining reconstruction and urban futuresKryvets, Olga ; Carr, Constance Presentation (2023) Detailed reference viewed: 86 (0 UL)The dichotomies of Amazon's and Google's digital cities: Representational symbolic spaces versus infrastructural hard spacesCarr, Constance Presentation (2022) Detailed reference viewed: 61 (1 UL)Mapping the clouds: The matter of data centresCarr, Constance ; Bast, Desmond ; Madron, Karinne Lynda et alin Journal of Maps (2022) The social spatial geographies of telecommunications and their infrastructures have long interested scholars in the social sciences, and in urban geography specifically. This paper focuses on data centers ... [more ▼] The social spatial geographies of telecommunications and their infrastructures have long interested scholars in the social sciences, and in urban geography specifically. This paper focuses on data centers. Much effort has been placed in preserving the notion that data centers are ‘clouds’, a terminology that obfuscates the real human geographies of cyberplaces. In this map-making exercise, we visualize the sociopolitical human geographies of data centers, and provoke the reader to consider the impacts that data centers have on residents and their environments. The maps shown in this paper suggest four trends. First, hyperscale data center owners are building near large waterways, signifying a shift in location preferences. Second, data centers stress local administrations, financing, and availability of upstream resources, as hyperscale data centers step up their input needs. Third, data center development is state-led. Fourth the competition for data center industries unfolds across a multi-level governance context. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 94 (3 UL) Four reasons why data centers matter, five implications of their social spatial distribution, one graphic to visualize them; Carr, Constance ; Madron, Karinne Lynda et alin Environment and Planning A (2022) Data centers constitute a new kind of telecommunications infrastructure that demands attention for four reasons. Data centers are under-examined in the social sciences literature, urban studies, in ... [more ▼] Data centers constitute a new kind of telecommunications infrastructure that demands attention for four reasons. Data centers are under-examined in the social sciences literature, urban studies, in particular. Data centers present an under explored geography of cyberworlds. Large digital corporations such as Amazon or Google are expanding their role in urban infrastructural development (such as data centers), and it is necessary to research and explain this phenomenon. Data centers present challenges of urban governance. The graphic provided here visualizes the social spatial distribution of data centers in the Washington Metropolitan Area. There are four implications of their social spatial distribution. Data centers are concentrated in metropolitan areas. Data centers have a high demand for energy and water, competing with local residents for these resources. The DC industry is a state-led niche economy. The uneven distribution of data centers can invoke inter-county competition for tax revenue, in addition to access to the water, power, and land resources that data centers require. The scale of the problem is unknown because the input needs of many data centers are not publicly available. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 139 (10 UL)Technocratic urban development: Large digital corporations as power brokers of the digital ageCarr, Constance ; Hesse, Markus in Planning Theory and Practice (2022) Large digital corporations such as Amazon.com or Alphabet Inc. are forging their position in cities by promoting themselves as the sole providers of so-called essential urban infrastructures. In this ... [more ▼] Large digital corporations such as Amazon.com or Alphabet Inc. are forging their position in cities by promoting themselves as the sole providers of so-called essential urban infrastructures. In this paper, we reflect on how the behaviours of these current-day ‘tech giants’ are similar to those of the mid-20th century, a time period also known for dramatic infrastructural change in North American and Europe. Specifically, we are reminded of Robert Moses and how he pushed for infrastructural change in New York City and State, which were also supposedly the height of state-of-the-art urban planning at the time. He pushed his agenda, however, by brokering power and strong-arming the urban and regional development field. We reflect on Alphabet Inc.’s project in Toronto and Amazon’s search for a second headquarters in New York City and how these LDCs were similarly armed with executive and financial power and an ability to bully the field of urban development in their own interest. Behaving as digital-age power brokers, they engaged managerial-technocratic modes of urban governance to instigate projects that ultimately failed. We argue that Alphabet’s and Amazon’s strategies not only resemble those of Moses, but that all three deploy tactics that debase planning practice itself. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 138 (8 UL)Introducing Luxembourg and reflecting on framework conditions and contradictions in urban governanceMadron, Karinne Lynda ; Carr, Constance Presentation (2022) Detailed reference viewed: 93 (6 UL)The visible showcase and the hidden back end of urban development led by Amazon and GoogleCarr, Constance Presentation (2022) Detailed reference viewed: 70 (2 UL)Reflecting on research and activism in times of uncertainty and crisis: The 30th Anniversary conference of INURA in LuxembourgMadron, Karinne Lynda ; Kryvets, Olga ; Nicotra, Elide et alArticle for general public (2022) Detailed reference viewed: 70 (2 UL)Policy failure revisited: The post-political urban development strategies of large digital corporationsCarr, Constance ; Hesse, Markus Presentation (2022) Detailed reference viewed: 125 (3 UL) |
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