This document discusses the emergence of "sentient cities" enabled by ambient intelligence technologies like RFID, biometrics, sensors and ubiquitous computing. It analyzes three trajectories for these technologies: consumerization aimed at "frictionless capitalism", securitization and militarization for surveillance, and urban activism/art seeking to reclaim and reanimate public spaces. While commercial and security visions aim to make infrastructure transparent and anticipate human activity, an "oligopticon" of fragmented systems is more realistic. Art and activism offer alternative visions of enriched community and participatory urban experiences.

1. Sentient Cities: Ambient intelligence and the politics of urban space Steve Graham and Mike Crang Department of Geography University of Durham

9. RFIDs: Smooth Flow, Just in Time Management, Ubiquitous Tracking

12. ‘ Software-Sorting’ techniques often used to ‘unbundle’ and recommodify public urban infrastructure into neoliberal mobility marketplaces

13. Road Pricing: Unbundling Public Roadspace Monopolies:

19. II Securitisation and Militarisation: Towards Passage-Point Urbanism?

21. Code Space: Software-Sorted Mobilities

22. Code Face: Toward Software-Sorted Streets?

23. Surveillance Creep: Embedded Systems Become Securitised

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34. Digital Collective Memory e.g. 34N118W:

39. Opening Out City as Gamespace e.g. Asphalt Games

40. ‘ Relational Architecture’: Rafael Lozano Hemmer

41. Urban Screens: Making Things Public

42. Contesting Urban Data Politics e.g. Neighborhood Knowledge Los Angeles (NKLA)