CHAPTER 8 Crisis, Disorder and Management: Smart Cities and Contemporary Urban Inequality David Nugent and Adeem Suhail Introduction In the pages that follow we present an analysis of the distinctive temporal and spatial logic that is implicit in Smart Urbanism. Before doing so, however, we place our remarks in the context of issues that emerge repeat- edly in the other contributions to the present work, and in the conference upon which it is based. 1 It is very striking that most of the chapters take as their point of departure the deeply problematic nature of the present conjuncture. The majority of the contributions discuss the ways that disadvantaged groups struggle with the troubling circumstances in 1 The conference was titled, ‘Urban Inequalities: Ethnographic Insights’. It took place at the University of Peloponnese in Corinth, Greece, on 20–22 June 2019. D. Nugent (B ) Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA e-mail: david.nugent@emory.edu A. Suhail Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA © The Author(s) 2021 I. Pardo and G. B. Prato (eds.), Urban Inequalities, Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51724-3_8 145