Emerging urban drone geographies: the practices, politics, and volumes of density governance in the post-pandemic city.

新兴城市无人机地理：大流行后城市的密度治理的实践、政治和数量。

• 批准号: 2888085
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2888085
• 关键词: Emerging; urban; drone; geographies; practices

This proposed research investigates the uneven social, spatial, and ethical implications of mobilizing drone technologies in contemporary urban governance efforts, focusing on Singapore. Technologies originally designed for military application, drones are increasingly used in 'smart' governance, particularly in managing various forms of densities (e.g., crowd control, infectious disease hotspots). By enabling new 'vertical visualities', drone interventions have not only shifted the spatiality of density management from a two- to three-dimensional plane, but also ushered in new predictive anticipatory actions in urban governance. Despite the rise of new drone technologies in cities today, in-depth research on their implications on urban space and life remains limited. Building upon recent literature around density, volume, and the politics of drone technology and algorithms, this timely study will: (a) trace how the city and its densities are known and managed through drone technologies, (b) examine theconsequences of drone algorithms in anticipating densities,and (c) assess the contribution of studying urban drone usesto urban theory. Using an innovative methodologycombining interviews and an ethnography of density algorithms, this research will generate rich empirical resources for theorizing the volumetric shifts in urban politics in this drone age, challenging the surface-focusedtradition in critical urban thinking. Besides yielding early, grounded perspectives into the politics and ethics of emerging urban drone robotic developments, the researchwill also contribute to a more nuanced, topological theorization of density that takes seriously the anticipatory effects of algorithms, building on recent efforts in problematizing density as a universal grammar of urbanism.

这项拟议的研究调查了动员无人机技术在当代城市治理工作中的不平衡，空间和道德的影响，重点是新加坡。最初是为军事应用设计的技术，无人机越来越多地用于“智能”治理，尤其是管理各种形式的密度（例如，人群控制，传染病热点）。通过启用新的“垂直视觉”，无人机干预不仅将密度管理的空间性从两维平面转移，而且还引发了城市治理中新的预测性预期行动。尽管当今城市的新无人机技术的兴起，但对它们对城市空间和生活的影响的深入研究仍然有限。这项及时的研究将基于围绕密度，数量和无人机技术和算法的政治的最新文学作用：（a）追踪该城市及其密度如何通过无人机技术来了解和管理，（b）研究无人机算法在预期的密度中的特征，以及（c）评估研究URBAN DELANE DILLANE TRODISSO TROANE TROANE TROANE TROANE TROANE TROANE TROANE TREANE TROANE TROANE TROANE TROANE TROANE TROANE TROWANE TROWNARE TROANE。这项研究将使用创新的方法论访谈和密度算法的人种志，将产生丰富的经验资源，以理论化这个无人机时代的城市政治的体积变化，从而挑战了关键城市思维中的表面限定性传统。除了及早产生扎根于新兴的城市无人机机器人发展的政治和伦理学外，研究意想不到的是对密度的更细微，更细致的拓扑理论的认真对待算法的预期效应，从而促进了最新的努力，以使其成为城市主义的普遍语法的密度使密度问题化。