Digital Conquest

Fanny Lopez is Full Professor of History of Architecture and Technology at the Paris Malaquais School of Architecture, Paris Sciences et Lettres University.Cécile Diguet is Head of Studio Degel with 20 years’ experience in urban planning and local public policies.

• IntroductionPart I: The Smart City at Half-Mast: Storing Data to Counter CrisesChapter 1. Modeling degrowth: the utopia of the informational and communicational cityChapter 2. The Internet infrastructure: from dispersion to centralizationChapter 3. An infrastructure without architecture?Chapter 4. Scales, typologies and siting strategies of data centresPart II: A globalized territorial continuumChapter 5. In the dense cityChapter 6. In urban outskirts, growing digital zonesChapter 7. Isolated in rural zonesChapter 8. Growth, acceleration and digital productivismPart III: Energy disturbances and conflicts of useChapter 9. Rising electricity consumption and territorial destabilizationChapter 10. Île-de-France in quest of a strategyChapter 11. Infrastructural redundancies and difficult poolingChapter 12. The Dutch and Swedish examples: integrated urban approachesPart IV.Another digital: rethinking the network and its infrastructuresChapter 13. Cyberattacks and political intrusions: states seeking independenceChapter 14. The peer-to-peer solution: organizing a system distributed among equalsChapter 15. Self-management and technological sovereignty: the decentralized digital infrastructuresChapter 16. Resilience and inclusion: systems faced with disconnectionChapter 17. The ecological footprint of alternative digital infrastructuresPart V. Chapter 18. Alternative futures: three possible digital worldsConclusion