Code and the city / edited by Rob Kitchin and Sung-Yueh Perng.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kitchin, Rob, editor.

Perng, Sung-Yueh, editor.

Series:

Regions and cities ; 97.

Regions and cities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Municipal services--Technological innovations.

Municipal services.

Cities and towns--Growth.

Cities and towns.

Management information systems.

Physical Description:

xix, 240 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

Software has become essential to the functioning of cities. It is deeply embedded into the systems and infrastructure of the built environment and is entrenched in the management and governance of urban societies. Software-enabled technologies and services enhance the ways in which we understand and plan cities. They have a profound effect on how we manage urban services and utilities. Code and the City explores the extent and depth of the ways in which software mediates how people work, consume, communicate, travel and play. The reach of these systems is set to become even more pervasive through efforts to create smart cities: cities that employ ICT to underpin and drive their economy and governance. Yet, despite the rollout of software-enabled systems across all aspects of city life, the relationship between code and the city has barely been explored from a critical social science perspective. This collection of essays seeks to fill that gap, and offers an interdisciplinary examination of the relationship between software and contemporary urbanism. This book will be of interest to those researching or studying smart cities and urban infrastructure. Book jacket.

Contents:

Code and the city : introduction / Rob Kitchin and Sung-Yueh Perng

Code, coding, infrastructure, cities

From a single line of code to an entire city : reframing the conceptual terrain of code/space / Rob Kitchin

The internet of urban things / Paul Dourish

Interfacing urban intelligence / Shannon Mattern

Abstract urbanism / Matthew Fuller And Graham Harwood

Code-traffic : code repositories, crowds and urban life / Adrian Mackenzie

Locative media and mobile computing

Digital social interactions in the city : reflecting on location-based social networks / Luigina Ciolfi And Gabriela Avram

Feeling place in the city : strange ontologies and location-based social media / Leighton Evans

Curating the city : urban interfaces and locative media as experimental platforms for cultural data / Nanna Verhoeff and Clancy Wilmott

Moving applications : a multilayered approach to mobile computing / James Merricks White

Exploring urban social media: selfiecity and on broadway / Lev Manovich

Governance, politics, knowledge

Digital urbanism in crises / Monika Büscher, Xaroula Kerasidou, Michael Liegl and Katrina Petersen

Coding alternative modes of governance : learning from experimental "peer to peer cities" / Alison Powell

Encountering the city at hacking events / Sophia Maalsen and Sung-Yueh Perng

Semantic cities : coded geopolitics and rise of the semantic web / Heather Ford and Mark Graham

Cities and context : the codification of small areas through geodemographic classification / Alex Singleton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138922105

1138922102

9781138922112

1138922110

OCLC:

922562534