Emerging urban drone geographies: the practices, politics, and volumes of density governance in the post-pandemic city.

这项拟议的研究调查了在当代城市治理工作中动员无人机技术的不均衡社会，空间和道德影响，重点是新加坡。最初设计用于军事应用的技术，无人机越来越多地用于“智能”治理，特别是在管理各种形式的密度（例如，人群控制、传染病热点）。通过实现新的“垂直视觉”，无人机干预不仅将密度管理的空间性从二维平面转移到三维平面，而且还在城市治理中引入了新的预测性预期行动。尽管新的无人机技术在当今城市中兴起，但对其对城市空间和生活影响的深入研究仍然有限。基于最近关于密度、体积以及无人机技术和算法的政治的文献，这项及时的研究将：（a）追踪如何通过无人机技术了解和管理城市及其密度，（B）检查无人机算法在预测密度方面的后果，以及（c）评估研究城市无人机使用对城市理论的贡献。使用创新的方法学相结合的采访和密度算法的人种学，这项研究将产生丰富的经验资源，理论化的体积变化在城市政治在这个无人机时代，挑战表面集中的传统批判性城市思维。除了对新兴城市无人机机器人发展的政治和伦理产生早期的、有基础的观点外，这项研究还将有助于对密度进行更细致入微的拓扑理论化，认真对待算法的预期影响，并建立在最近将密度问题化为城市化普遍语法的基础上。

This proposed research investigates the uneven social, spatial, and ethical implications of mobilizing drone technologies in contemporary urban governance efforts, focusing on Singapore. Technologies originally designed for military application, drones are increasingly used in 'smart' governance, particularly in managing various forms of densities (e.g., crowd control, infectious disease hotspots). By enabling new 'vertical visualities', drone interventions have not only shifted the spatiality of density management from a two- to three-dimensional plane, but also ushered in new predictive anticipatory actions in urban governance. Despite the rise of new drone technologies in cities today, in-depth research on their implications on urban space and life remains limited. Building upon recent literature around density, volume, and the politics of drone technology and algorithms, this timely study will: (a) trace how the city and its densities are known and managed through drone technologies, (b) examine theconsequences of drone algorithms in anticipating densities,and (c) assess the contribution of studying urban drone usesto urban theory. Using an innovative methodologycombining interviews and an ethnography of density algorithms, this research will generate rich empirical resources for theorizing the volumetric shifts in urban politics in this drone age, challenging the surface-focusedtradition in critical urban thinking. Besides yielding early, grounded perspectives into the politics and ethics of emerging urban drone robotic developments, the researchwill also contribute to a more nuanced, topological theorization of density that takes seriously the anticipatory effects of algorithms, building on recent efforts in problematizing density as a universal grammar of urbanism.