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Digital Futures and the City of Today

Digital Futures and the City of Today

Glenda Amayo Caldwell

(2016)

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Abstract

In the contemporary city, the physical infrastructure and sensorial experiences of two millennia are now inter-woven within an invisible digital matrix. This matrix alters human perceptions of the city, informs our behavior, and increasingly influences the urban designs we ultimately inhabit. Digital Futures and the City of Today cuts through these issues to analyse the work of architects, designers, media  specialists,  and  a  growing number of community activists, laying out a multi-faceted view of the complex integrated phenomenon of the contemporary city. Split into three sections, the book interrogates the concept of the “smart” city, examines innovative digital projects from around the world, documents experimental visions for the future, and describes projects that engage local communities in the design process.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Cover Cover
Half Title i
Title iii
Copyright iv
Contents v
Foreword vii
Introduction 1
Section One: Embedding - The digital in the physical world 7
Chapter 1: No need to fix: Strategic inclusivity in developing and managing the smart city 9
Chapter 2: Reimag(in)ing the city: Street View as storyspace 29
Chapter 3: Information, communication and the digital city 49
Chapter 4: From the iron cage to the mediated city 67
Section Two: Applications - The use of the digital in the everyday 85
Chapter 5: Identity management, premediation and the city 87
Chapter 6: Urban utopics: The politics of the digital city view 105
Chapter 7: Place, play and privacy: Exploring location-based applications and spatial experience 123
Chapter 8: Post-digital approaches to mapping memory, heritage and identity in the city 139
Chapter 9: Responsive transport environments: System thinking as a method to combine media architecture into a digital ecology to improve public transport 157
Section Three: Studies and trials - Examples of community uses of digital technologies 175
Chapter 10: Digital urban health and security: NYC’s got an app for that 177
Chapter 11: Explorations of an urban intervention management system: A reflection on how to deal with urban complex systems and deliver dynamic change 193
Chapter 12: Innovative urban mobility shaped by users through pervasive information and communication technologies 215
Chapter 13: Blurring the physical boundaries of the city: Media architecture and urban informatics for community engagement 235
Epilogue 251
Notes on Contributors 255
Index 265
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