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The Quayside development on Toronto’s waterfront was supposed to be the shining example of a tech-optimized smart city, an urban environment reinvented “from the internet up,” as it was described by Sidewalk Labs. That was a sister company to Google, which won a government bid in 2017 to modernize the 12 acres of former dockland. There would be robotaxis, heated sidewalks, adaptive traffic lights and lots of data collection. But in 2020, Sidewalk Toronto suddenly shut down before a single ribbon had been cut, turning a shining example into a cautionary tale. It’s all chronicled in a new book from Globe and Mail reporter Josh O’Kane called “Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy.” Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with O’Kane about what went on behind the scenes of the Sidewalk Toronto project.

The Quayside development on Toronto’s waterfront was supposed to be the shining example of a tech-optimized smart city, an urban environment reinvented “from the internet up,” as it was described by Sidewalk Labs. That was a sister company to Google, which won a government bid in 2017 to modernize the 12 acres of former dockland. There would be robotaxis, heated sidewalks, adaptive traffic lights and lots of data collection. But in 2020, Sidewalk Toronto suddenly shut down before a single ribbon had been cut, turning a shining example into a cautionary tale. It’s all chronicled in a new book from Globe and Mail reporter Josh O’Kane called “Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy.” Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with O’Kane about what went on behind the scenes of the Sidewalk Toronto project.

The Quayside development on Toronto’s waterfront was supposed to be the shining example of a tech-optimized smart city, an urban environment reinvented “from the internet up,” as it was described by Sidewalk Labs. That was a sister company to Google, which won a government bid in 2017 to modernize the 12 acres of former dockland. There would be robotaxis, heated sidewalks, adaptive traffic lights and lots of data collection. But in 2020, Sidewalk Toronto suddenly shut down before a single ribbon had been cut, turning a shining example into a cautionary tale. It’s all chronicled in a new book from Globe and Mail reporter Josh O’Kane called “Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy.” Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with O’Kane about what went on behind the scenes of the Sidewalk Toronto project.

Paris Marx is joined by Josh O'Kane to discuss how Sidewalk Labs decided to build a city “from the internet up” in Toronto, the concerns that existed with the project, and why it ultimately fell apart.Josh O'Kane is an award-winning technology reporter at the Globe and Mail and the author of Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy. Follow Josh on Twitter at @joshokane.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.Also mentioned in this episode:An excerpt of Josh's book was published in the Globe and Mail.Josh wrote about how Canada's Liberal government under Justin Trudeau isn't as friendly with tech companies as it was earlier in its time in power.Around the time of Sidewalk Toronto, opponents were able to defeat Amazon's HQ2 project in New York, Google's Berlin startup hub, Apple's planned central Stockholm store, and its planned store in Melbourne's Fed Square.Bianca Wylie was one of the prominent critics of the project, and was called the “Jane Jacobs of the smart city.”In 2019, documents leaked showing Sidewalk Labs wanted a lot more power and access to more land than was agreed upon, and that further fueled opposition.In May 2020, Wylie wrote about the cancelation of the project and the lessons that should be learned.Support the show

As the fabric of the city becomes increasingly fibreoptic, enthusiasm for the speed and ubiquity of digital infrastructure abounds. From Toronto to Abu Dhabi, new technologies promise the ability to observe, manage, and experience the city in so-called real-time, freeing cities from the spatiotemporal restrictions of the past. In this project, I look at the way this appreciation for the real-time is influencing our understanding of the datafied urban subject. I argue that this dominant discourse locates digital infrastructure within a broader metaphysics of presence, in which instantaneous data promise an unmediated view of both the city and those within it. The result is a levelling of residents along an overarching, linear, and spatialized timeline that sanitizes the temporal and rhythmic diversity of urban spaces. This same levelling effect can be seen in contemporary regulatory frameworks, which focus on the rights or sovereignty of a largely atomized urban subject removed from its spatiotemporal context. A more equitable alternative must therefore consider the temporal diversity, relationality, and inequality implicit within the datafied city, an alternative I begin to ground in Jacques Derrida's notion of the spectre. This work is conducted through an exploration of Sidewalk Labs pioneering use of term urban data during their foray in Toronto, which highlights the potentiality of alternative, spectral data governance models at the same time it reflects the limitations of existing frameworks. Nathan Olmstead Urban Studies University of Toronto

Nathan Olmstead, We Are All Ghosts: Sidewalk Toronto by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto

Sidewalk Toronto is dead, but its legacy is instructive. It shows that surveillance systems aren't so much documenting as producing a desired reality — and that erasing these images, rather than increasing privacy, only makes that constructed reality harder to audit.  Read more essays on living with technology at https://reallifemag.com and follow us on Twitter @_reallifemag.

今回は地方都市のsustainability、SmartCityの最終回として、世界でのSmart Cityの潮流について話しています。 2:25 Smart Cityの取り組みの分類、8:26 それぞれのSmart Cityの特徴、17:23 Smart City事例の分類、29:07 Sidewalk Toronto by Alphabet Show notesはこちら：https://steppfunction.com/2021/12/10/3-8-smart-city-trends-smart-city-3/ #SteppFunction Webpage: https://steppfunction.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SteppFunction Follow E-mail: steppfunction_at_gmail.com

Paris Marx is joined by Shannon Mattern to discuss what we miss when we see the city solely through the lens of the computer, and how other institutions and ways of knowing can help inform richer ways of understanding the city.Shannon Mattern is a professor of anthropology at The New School for Social Research and President of the Board at the Metropolitan New York Library Council. She is the author of “Code and Clay, Data and Dirt” and “A City Is Not a Computer.” Follow Shannon on Twitter at @shannonmattern.

We’re still social distancing, keeping an eye on how our relationship with technology is changing throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Sidewalk Toronto is not going to happen. Is it because Covid-19? Kind of. It’s also a long story of innovative thinking meets city bureaucracy. But how will we solve all the problems cities face? Will it mean the privatization of public space? Is that a price worth paying? No, Covid-19 (almost certainly) wasn’t made in a lab. We’d know if it was. Using apps to make someone go to the store and bring groceries to you. Is it the right thing to do or grossly bourgeois? And can Amazon just be better to its employees? And finally, Toronto saves us all from the selfie-stick hell by bringing Spring to us: live stream cherry blossoms could be the quiet time we all need. We are grateful for all the frontline staff who never had the option of staying at home. Let’s repay their hard work by keeping to the rules as the lockdowns are lifted. This episode is produced by David Angell at his studio, Giant Sound Toronto. Want to be on the show or know someone who should? Get in touch at machinespodcast@gmail.com Or find us on Instagram and Twitter where we never post cherry blossom-related selfies. We’re @machinespodcast.

14 Mayıs 2020 | Aposto! Teknoloji’nin dördüncü bölümünde NFC ile kablosuz şarj dönemini, akıllı şehir projesi Sidewalk Toronto’nun son durumunu, Boston Dynamics robotlarının Singapur’daki sağlık devriyesini, VR sektörünün büyük oyuncularından Magic Leap’in çıkmazlarını ve oyun dünyası ve yayıncılığa iddialı bir giriş yapan Facebook’un yeni uygulaması Facebook Gaming’i konuştuk. Keyifli dinlemeler. Bültene kayıt olmak için: apostonews.com/tech

Mariana Valverdei's contribution to an early panel discussion of the Sidewalk Toronto Project, a collaboration of Google's Sidewalk Labs and Waterfront Toronto. Ethics in the City Jan 28, 2018 Mariana Valverde University of Toronto Criminology & Sociolegal Studies

Mark Fox's contribution to an early panel discussion of the Sidewalk Toronto Project, a collaboration of Google's Sidewalk Labs and Waterfront Toronto. Ethics in the City Jan 28, 2018 Mark S. Fox University of Toronto Distinguished Professor of Urban Systems Engineering

Ruben Gaetani's contribution to an early panel discussion of the Sidewalk Toronto Project, a collaboration of Google's Sidewalk Labs and Waterfront Toronto. Ethics in the City Jan 28, 2018 Ruben Gaetani University of Toronto Management

John Lorinc's contribution to an early panel discussion of the Sidewalk Toronto Project, a collaboration of Google's Sidewalk Labs and Waterfront Toronto. Ethics in the City Jan 28, 2018 John Lorinc spacing.ca

Bianca Wylie joins the podcast to discuss the Quayside smart city project — also called Sidewalk Toronto — being spearheaded by Waterfront Toronto and Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs. Wylie, who is opposed to the project and is part of the #BlockSidewalk campaign, talks about what she considers to be flaws in the process and Toronto's readiness for such an initiative. Wylie, who has a background in technology and public engagement, also talks about where Toronto can go from here and what other jurisdictions are doing. Email sduggal@torstar.ca with any questions, concerns or praise. Music: "Private Eye" by Kevin McLeod From the Free Music Archive CC BY

Your hosts, Terry, Marie-Claude, Lynn, and Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20190419-WEE15 Court case launched against "smart city" over privacy The Quayside project would create housing, heated sidewalks, autonomous vehicle infrastructure and data-collecting sensors on five hectares of Toronto waterfront. (Sidewalk Toronto/hand out photo/The Canadian Press) A project by the American firm Sidewalk Labs to turn a large section of downtown Toronto into a "smart city" has been controversial since its proposal. While many seem excited by the high tech proposal by the Google subsidiary, others have expressed great concern over the collection of vast amounts of personal data. The company would build the entire "city" all of which would be wired to the net. While the firm extolls the virtues and benefits of such a concept the Canadian Civil Liberties Association has launched a lawsuit claiming that the municipal, provincial, and federal governments have all agreed in giving over control of privacy issues to a private for-profit company. Lynn spoke with Michael Bryant, executive-director and lawyer for the CCLA Alberta election: setting the stage for conflict with Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Premier-Designate Jason Kenney addresses the media the day his after his election victory in Edmonton on Wednesday April 17, 2019. (Jason Franson/THE CANADIAN PRESS) The United Conservative Party will form the new government in the western province of Alberta after easily defeating the outgoing New Democratic Party government in an election this week. Th oil-rich province has been struggling lately with low world oil prices and a lack of pipelines to get its oil to markets other than the U.S where it gets low prices. Many blamed the problems on the previous provincial government and the federal Liberal government of Justin Trudeau. On Wednesday incoming Premier Jason Kenney presented his legislative priorities, presented in a short clip here. Jobs threatened, jobs created: the future of employment in 2030 . A 'female' robot waiter delivers meals for customers at robot-themed restaurant in Onin Yiwu, Zhejiang province of China. Robots, AI, automation: technology is a major factor affecting jobs and careers, but not the only factor in the future, which can include issues like the environment and demographics amongst o(hers VCG-Getty Images- via CBC) While technology is certainly a major driver of the employment scene in the future, a new study looks at not only how that is and will change employment in the future but several other factors as well. This includes changing demographics, climate change, and a host of other factors. Marc spoke to Jessica Thornton, lead author of the study and Senior Project Designer at the Brookfield Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Ryerson University in Toronto The origin of making maple syrup Atikamekw site for maple syrup production in Manawan, Quebec. RCI/Marie-Claude Simard It was the indigenous peoples of central Canada who showed Europeans how to tap the watery sap from maple trees and turn it into sweet maple syrup. Marie-Claude this week drove several hundred kilometres north of Montreal to a First Nations reserve where they were in the process of making maple syrup. She presents a short video clip of the process. A larger story on the process and traditions is in the works to come soon. Video of the show

In this episode, we speak with Ellen Goodman. She’s the co-director of the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy and Law, in Camden, New Jersey. And at the moment, she’s conducting research on Smart Cities. What’s the future of our urban lives? Should we be excited about it, or resist it? We discuss the texture of life in cities built from the Internet up, and we talk about Sidewalk Toronto, one of the hottest smart city projects at the moment.  

Today, many of the most crucial policy questions are also digital questions, and how we choose to address them has the potential to transform policy-making at the highest levels. Agencies like the Canadian Digital Service are working to innovate within the bureaucracy, but governments are slow to change. Meanwhile, opposition to Sidewalk Toronto's planned smart neighbourhood shows that concerns about digital democracy aren’t going anywhere. Alistair Croll and Amanda Clarke join the podcast to explore the best practices and greatest challenges of digital government. Alistair Croll is an author, tech entrepreneur and co-founder of the FWD50 conference on digital government. Amanda Clarke is the Public Affairs Research Excellence Chair at Carleton University’s School of Public Policy and Administration. Her book, Opening the Government of Canada, was just published by UBC Press. Download for free. New episodes every second Wednesday. Tweet your questions and comments to @IRPP or @jbugiel.

Jesse Shapins, Sidewalk Toronto, Director of Public Realm talks about a possible solution to potholes

This week we got to talk to the golden-voiced Paul Seufert about his year at ZS Associates and Sidewalk Toronto, that tied together physics, consulting, and urban design! In this episode: choosing between physics and math, stats & finance; kaggle projects; fractional staffing and working on multiple projects at the same time; what it means to be a fast learner; getting really good at writing emails; the value of human intuition; urban design; learning that it's not all about the money; procrastination. Sidewalk Toronto fellows report - https://sidewalktoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SidewalksTOFellowsReport_Final_webcopy.pdf Paul's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/seufertpaul/ Gift of Education - https://giftofeducation.ca/ Music by Shawn Lee

CBC technology reporter Matthew Braga explains Sidewalk Toronto's plan to create a futuristic neighbourhood on waterfront property in downtown Toronto and breaks down why some say the high-tech smart city is the solution to our urban woes... while others are concerned about the intentions of the Google-affiliated company.

It's an age of big dreams and cool feats in the space of smart cities -- tech-forward, super-efficient places of living and business, with advanced data-gathering, analytics and automation that save time and money and make life and government good. But the rise of smart-cities too is giving rise to conversations about ethics, inclusion, consent, and how "smart" these solutions really are in their effects on everyday people. On this episode we hang out with Daniel Latorre, who wants to shift the focus from smart cities to "wise cities" -- a different approach to civic innovation and problem solving that decentralizes technology in favor of human beings. He identifies the shortcomings he sees in tech-centric planning, and then gives us a takeaway checkbox of questions to ask when embarking on such projects and planning to ensure that the affected people are kept at the center of focus. Daniel Latorre - The Wise City - Laura Bliss, CityLab, "When a Tech Giant Plays Waterfront Developer" - Bianca Wylie, Medium, "Report from Executive Committee on Sidewalk Toronto. Plus a Word About Consent, Consultation, and Innovation." - Sidewalk Toronto - Episode 38, "Being Careful About Smart Cities and Civic Tech" - Episode 18, "The Smart Cities Primer" -  

Mark Fox, Sidewalk Toronto: Ethics in the "Smart City" by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto

Kristina Verner, Sidewalk Toronto: Ethics in the "Smart City" by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto

Ruben Gaetani, Sidewalk Toronto: Ethics in the "Smart City" by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto

John Lorinc, Sidewalk Toronto: Ethics in the "Smart City" by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto

Mariana Valverde, Sidewalk Toronto: Ethics in the "Smart City" by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto