From the control room to the Googleplex: ‘Innovation needs a where’

Big Tech companies like Google have spread their priorities from city to city by integrating their products into local infrastructure and forming new public–private partnerships to manage them. This article asks what happens when co-dependence fails, and briefly reviews attempts to describe and label emerging urban-tech regimes.

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Urban Studies
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2025-08-18
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https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251357551
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Digital Economy and Work Transformation
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From the control room to the Googleplex: ‘Innovation needs a where’

Sharon Zukin
Urban Studies
Digital Economy and Work Transformation
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From the control room to the Googleplex: ‘Innovation needs a where’

Sharon Zukin
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Big Tech companies like Google have spread their priorities from city to city by integrating their products into local infrastructure and forming new public–private partnerships to manage them. This article asks what happens when co-dependence fails, and briefly reviews attempts to describe and label emerging urban-tech regimes.

Urban StudiesVol. 62(13)
The Graduate Center, CUNY (US), City University of New York (US), Brooklyn College (US)
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Openalex Percentile: Top 72%
Digital Economy and Work Transformation
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