The combination of the trends to #authoritarianism and post- #smartcities, or #platformcities, is generating anti-democratic ideas like this one in #Georgia...

Post-smart cities come to the UK? I was also struck by how much of the imagery for the #ForestCity proposal seemed recycled from Sidewalk Lab's failed Toronto "smart neighbourhood" venture. #smartcities #platformcities #chartercities

As NEOM collapses under the weight of its own ridiculousness, I just wanted to remind folks of what I wrote 18 months ago... #smartcities #platformcities theconversation.com/the-scaling-...

Destiny

Another histrionic, very white, neocolonial, "sustainable", "smart" SEZ vision drops... this time on St Kitts and Nevis. They are doing it for the people, don't you know! #smartcities #platformcities #AIcities

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Welcome to Praxis: The High-Tech, High-Testosterone Eden That Will Save the World Dryden Brown has raised half a billion dollars to build a city where the rich will get richer, discuss ‘The Odyssey,’ and, he thinks, restore Western civilization. Heaven, it turns out, just may be an...

#PraxisNetworkState is hitting the mainstream with what can only be described as a puff-piece in Vanity Fair: barely critical journalism of the promotional kind. #platformcities

www.vanityfair.com/news/praxis-...

Elon Musk’s company town: SpaceX employees to vote on ‘Starbase’ Residents – most of them SpaceX workers – in remote Texas community expected to approve plan to create new city

Residents of the areas around the #SpaceX launch site in Texas (who are mostly Space-X employees), to vote on whether they should incorporate as a city (or more accurately, #Musk 's company town), called #Starbase. #cities #platformcities

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

#techbros can't get their physical city-states built properly in Honduras or Saudi Arabia or California, but they are trying to simulate some on the Internet, with the somewhat ironically named #Praxis #smartcities #platformcities #postsmartcities #AIcities