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September 17, 2025Urban StudiesOpen Access

Infrastructuration and spatial governance: Why Google is not just another service provider

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NONancy Odendaal

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Analysis highlights Google's role in spatial governance through infrastructuration, suggesting systemic political impacts.

Key Points

  • Google contributes to spatial governance by establishing norms and codes through infrastructuration, influencing urban services.
  • This creates a socio-technical dynamic that can lead to structural inertia, making change more difficult over time.
  • The piece examines the political implications of technology multinational power in shaping societal structures and processes.
  • Infrastructuration, as a concept, helps to understand the embedded nature of these norms and codes in urban service implementation.

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Nancy Odendaal (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d45e6a31b076d99fa5f02ehttps://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251359476
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