New Urban Surveillance: Technology, Mobility, and Diversity in 21st Century Cities

Sometime near 2007 the world reached a ‘watershed in human history’the global urban population surpassed the rural (Davis 2007). Distinct from intimate towns and sprawling suburbs, cities are filled with strangers living in close proximity to one another (Jacobs 1961). Surveillance is a traditional element, perhaps even a defining feature of urban life (Coaffee et al. 2009): thus, surveillance is increasingly urban surveillance. In 21 Century cities, this surveillance is intensifying and mutating as the strangeness and anonymity of urban life is either fading or adopting new forms. This issue is about the new forms, arrangements, and representations of urban surveillance.

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