Digital gentrification and algorithmic power: urban inequalities in the age of the smart city
Journal title SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE
Author/s Angelo Falzarano
Online First 2/19/2026 Issue 2026/Online First
Language Italian Pages 19 P. 1-19 File size 91 KB
DOI 10.3280/SUR2026-20828
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The paper explores digital gentrification as an urban mechanism of opaque, programmable selection. Through three layers - infrastructural, algorithmic, and hegemonic - and case studies (Barcelona, Singapore, Toronto), it combines classical sociology with critical theory to examine inequality in smart cities. A new architecture of exclusion emerges, shaped by the predictive power of algorithms.
Keywords: digital gentrification, algorithmic citizenship, smart infrastructures, urban surveillance, right to the city, digital capitalism
Angelo Falzarano, Gentrificazione digitale e potere algoritmico: disuguaglianze urbane nell’era della smart city in "SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE" Online First/2026, pp 1-19, DOI: 10.3280/SUR2026-20828