Infrastructuration and spatial governance: Why Google is not just another service provider

IF 4.1 1区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI:10.1177/00420980251359476

Nancy Odendaal

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Abstract

In an era of platform governance and artificial intelligence, it is important to consider the social and political impacts of technology multinational power. In this piece, Google, as a platform and as an infrastructure, is explored in relation to spatial governance. The term infrastructuration (developed by Paul Edwards) is used to explore how the implementation of urban services is accompanied by the generation of norms, codes, and processes that are deeply political and potentially resistant to change, once embedded. The argument is made that this impact is systemic in the creation of a socio-technical dynamic that could solidify into structural inertia.

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基础设施和空间治理：为什么谷歌不仅仅是另一个服务提供商

在平台治理和人工智能的时代，考虑技术跨国力量的社会和政治影响是很重要的。在这篇文章中，谷歌作为一个平台和基础设施，探讨了与空间治理的关系。基础设施一词（由Paul Edwards提出）用于探索城市服务的实施如何伴随着规范、规范和流程的产生，这些规范、规范和流程一旦嵌入，就具有深刻的政治性和潜在的抗拒性。有人认为，这种影响是系统性的，它创造了一种社会技术动态，可能固化为结构性惰性。

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来源期刊

Urban Studies Multiple-

CiteScore

10.50

自引率

8.50%

发文量

150

期刊介绍： Urban Studies was first published in 1964 to provide an international forum of social and economic contributions to the fields of urban and regional planning. Since then, the Journal has expanded to encompass the increasing range of disciplines and approaches that have been brought to bear on urban and regional problems. Contents include original articles, notes and comments, and a comprehensive book review section. Regular contributions are drawn from the fields of economics, planning, political science, statistics, geography, sociology, population studies and public administration.