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Title	When “The Sensor Gives Them A Voice”: Representing Users Through Data
ID_Doc	61771
Authors	Courmont A.
Year	2021
Published	Regulation and Planning: Practices, Institutions, Agency
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003095828-18
Abstract	As smart city projects spread in the world’s major cities, this chapter examines the capacity of big data to be a regulatory tool for urban planning. It explores the background of an experimentation conducted during the redevelopment project of the Place de la Nation in Paris to represent users through big data. In partnership with the firm Cisco, the City of Paris implemented various sensors before the redevelopment in order to better know the users, who are considered to be imperfectly represented in the traditional participation procedures. However, the data collected would never be used by the teams in charge of the redevelopment of the place. This article analyses this contrast between the promises of big data and the non-use of data in order to understand why this new method of quantification has failed to establish itself as a representation tool for urban planning. The story of this experiment underlines that the success of big data is not exclusively due to its greater or lesser capacity to reflect reality, but also to the social conditions that drive the emergence, development, and use of these technologies. © 2022 selection and editorial matter, Yvonne Rydin, Robert Beauregard, Marco Cremaschi, and Laura Lieto; individual chapters, the contributors
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