In Gabrys’s reading, she asked: What are the processes that these infrastructures instigate and sustain? How do they at once individuate and join up cities and citizens? What are the capacities of these infrastructures and what modes of inhabitation do they facilitate? She answered these question by the environmental approaches which bring up the idea of withness. However, the environmental quality is not how I image the withness. Could it be a hybrid solution which combine environmental approaches with moving approaches?
Considering the digital infrastructures as the physical infrastructure which is eventually going to be have some sort of maintenance. But different form the physical infrastructure such as road, we can partially fix it. The digital infrastructure such as sensors are all connected. How do we maintain the service of the digital infrastructure? If like Gabrys described, digital sensors are embedding into the environment, will be increase the difficulty of maintenance. Or the system could be node to node.
“Smart Urbanism” touched the concern about the corporatization of governance. Are there ways to result the conflict between the operation of smart city and the “profit” of smart. So the building process of smart city can equality distribute the benefit. One idea I have in mind is requiring the customized “dashboard”. The London dashboard and Dublin dashboard should not be the same. Each of them should be more specific focus on their own city problem in term of city management. Then this raise another question: who is willing to putting the extra effort?