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Such approaches promote an instrumental rationality underpinning the notion that cities can be steered and managed through data levers and analytics and that urban issues can be solved through technical solutions.
“As such, they promote an instrumental rationality that underpins the notion that cities can be steered and managed through a set of data levers and analytics and that urban issues can be solved through a range of technical solutions [8,23,24].”
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- Authors
- Mattern, S.
- Affiliations
- The New School (US)
- Corresponding author
- Mattern, Shannon
- ORCID
- Mattern, Shannon
- Venue
- Places Journal
- Publisher
- Places Journal
- Published
- 2013-11-05
- Issue
- 2013
- ISSN
- 0731-0455 (ISSN-L)
- 2164-7798
- OpenAlex
- W269447386
- Cited by
- 63
- References
- 13
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 16.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Places (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
- Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Spatial and Cultural Studies
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban Planning and Governance
- Keywords
- measurement, measurement theory, philosophy of measurement
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