From the early to mid-twentieth century onwards, the interaction between technological and urban changes has also become apparent in the rise of suburbs that both echo and fuel the proliferation and accessibility of mass-produced commodities. But what we are seeing now, in our age of digital knowledge production and data processing, is less an integration of urban development into technological changes than the transformation of the process of city-making itself into a vehicle for steering technological advancements, and by extension, channelling massive profits towards the highest strata of society.[1]