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Over the past 10 years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles and showrooms for the practical application of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and the integration of big data into everyday life. Are smart cities optimized, sustainable, digitally networked solutions to urban problems? Or are they neoliberal, corporate-controlled, undemocratic non-places?

This is some of the material provided weekly for the course Knowledge and Politics, which I give as part of the MA in Continental Philosophy by distance learning at Staffordshire University. Knowledge and Politics focuses on the Michel Foucault's conception of critique as a transformative practice. If you're interested in postgraduate study with us at Staffordshire University please see https://blogs.staffs.ac.uk/philosophy/ or get in touch d.a.webb@staffs.ac.uk .

Grant Stott is joined by team captains Jo Caulfield and Gary Robertson in the panel game that pits journalists against the people they're reporting on Hold the front page - it's Stop the Press, the comedy quiz where the points really matter! Recorded live in Edinburgh, each show sees well-known...

In this accessible guide to the meanings of sustainability, Kent Portney describes the evolution of the idea and examines its application in a variety of contemporary contexts - from economic growth and consumption to government policy and urban planning.