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Digital space meets urban place: Sociotechnologies of urban restructuring in downtown San Francisco

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  • Stephen Graham
  • Simon Guy

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In this paper Graham and Guy analyse the political and spatial contestations surrounding the rapid recent growth of gentrifying IT-clusters in downtown San Francisco. The emphasis is on how new, high-capacity internet infrastructures and services, and the technoscientific apparatus to maintain, use and apply such infrastructures, are implicated in the restructuring of politics and landscapes of this particular central city. In particular, the authors focus on the complex urban and technological politics surrounding the 'dot-com invasion' of IT entrepreneurs and internet industries to downtown San Francisco. The paper explores how this urban place has been forcefully appropriated as a strategic site of digital capitalism, under intense resistance and contestation from a wide alliance of social movements struggling to maintain the city as a site of Bohemian counter-culture and social and cultural diversity.

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  • Stephen Graham & Simon Guy, 2002. "Digital space meets urban place: Sociotechnologies of urban restructuring in downtown San Francisco," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 6(3), pages 369-382, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:3:p:369-382
    DOI: 10.1080/1360481022000037788
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    2. Olga Kolotouchkina & Gildo Seisdedos, 2018. "Place branding strategies in the context of new smart cities: Songdo IBD, Masdar and Skolkovo," Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 14(2), pages 115-124, May.
    3. Ann Forsyth, 2014. "Alternative Forms of the High-Technology District: Corridors, Clumps, Cores, Campuses, Subdivisions, and Sites," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 32(5), pages 809-823, October.
    4. Andrey A. Zaytsev & Roman S. Blizkyi & Irina I. Rakhmeeva & Nikolay D. Dmitriev, 2021. "Building a Model for Financial Management of Digital Technologies in the Areas of Combinatorial Effects," Economies, MDPI, vol. 9(2), pages 1-15, April.

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