Toward a Dracula urbanism: Smart city building in Flint and Jakarta

We study two places experiencing the rise of both real-estate state and smart city building, Jakarta, Indonesia Flint, USA. Our core thesis: these states work through make a kind urbanism that we term Dracula urbanism. identify as deep-reaching, human-punishing unfolding is simultaneously mind, mode institutional operation, vision people, one gaze onto growth's true needs growth produced. urbanist notion seen to engulf has four central features. First, political economic resources drive building are secured ever-thickening parasitic relations, particularly with upper-level sources power authority. Second, involves unrelenting drives kill destroy (not rehabilitate or therapeutize) supposedly deep civic ‘cancers’, such poor's presumed anti-civic, morally culturally deficient dispositions ways. Third, promoted strategically deploying materiality discursive terrors decline. Fourth, local decisively integrated into ‘planetary urbanizations’ circuits smart-growth capital investment techno-scientific claims expertise. All these, chronicle, vintage characteristics Stoker's rendition Dracula. The results suggest cultural politics in-your-face revanchism Neil Smith helped us see, still present in cities Flint today accompanied by an equally punishing, complicated adroitly adapting places.