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Many cities across the world are looking to use technology and innovation to improve the overall efficiency and safety for their residents. At the heart of these smart-city plans, a variety of intelligent transportation system technologies can be used to improve safety, enhance mobility measures (e.g., traffic flow), and minimize environmental impacts of a city’s mobility ecosystem. Early implementations of these ITS technologies often take place in affluent cities, where there are many funding opportunities and suitable areas for deployment. However, it is critical that we also develop smart city solutions that are focused on improving conditions of disadvantaged and environmental justice communities, whose residents have suffered the most from unmitigated urban sprawl and its environmental and health impacts. As a leading example, Inland Southern California has grown to be one of the largest hubs of goods movement in the world. Numerous logistics facilities such as warehouses, rail facilities, and truck depots have rapidly spread throughout these communities, with the local residents bearing a disproportionate burden of truck traffic, poor air quality, and adverse health effects. Further, the majority of residents have lower-wage jobs and very few mobility options, other than low-end personal car ownership. To improve this situation, UC Riverside researchers have focused their smart city research on these impacted communities, finding innovative solutions to eco-friendly traffic management, developing better-shared (electric) mobility solutions for the community, improving freight movements, and enhancing the transition to vehicle electrification. Numerous research and development projects are currently underway in Inland Southern California, spanning advanced smart city modeling and impact analysis, community outreach events, and real-world technology demonstrations. This chapter describes several of these ITS solutions and their potential for improving many cities around the world.
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Nostalgia as Affective Landscape: Negotiating Displacement in the “World City”
Abstract Bangalore, an aspiring “world city”, is rapidly transforming as factories and mills are sold to private developers. As their neighbourhoods now accommodate multi‐million‐dollar gated communities and post‐industrial labour markets, residents experience an in situ displacement, staying in place while landscapes around them dramatically reconfigure. This paper makes sense of how old‐time residents locate themselves within such urban growth through nostalgic invocations of the past. Emplaced within histories and geographies of neighbourhood change, nostalgia creates “affective landscapes” through which residents invoke their closeness to past landscapes of abundance and involvement in community‐making. Such affective landscapes bring together embodied, sensorial, and more‐than‐human fields of action to shape an everyday politics in which residents narrate their marginalization within the world city and articulate their own value here.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1636437
- PAR ID:
- 10265387
- Publisher / Repository:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Antipode
- Volume:
- 52
- Issue:
- 6
- ISSN:
- 0066-4812
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- p. 1688-1709
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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