Data and the city / edited by Rob Kitchin, Tracey P. Lauriault and Gavin McArdle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kitchin, Rob, editor.

Lauriault, Tracey P., editor.

McArdle, Gavin, editor.

Series:

Regions and cities ; 119.

Regions and cities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Statistics.

Cities and towns.

Urbanization--Statistics.

Urbanization.

City planning--Statistical methods.

City planning.

City planning--Data processing.

Statistics.

Physical Description:

xix, 229 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Summary:

There is a long history of governments, businesses, science and citizens producing and utilizing data in order to monitor, regulate, profit from and make sense of the urban world. Recently, we have entered the age of big data, and now many aspects of everyday urban life are being captured as data and city management is mediated through data-driven technologies. Data and the City is the first edited collection to provide an interdisciplinary analysis of how this new era of urban big data is reshaping how we come to know and govern cities, and the implications of such a transformation. This book looks at the creation of real-time cities and data-driven urbanism and considers the relationships at play. By taking a philosophical, political, practical and technical approach to urban data, the authors analyse the ways in which data is produced and framed within socio-technical systems. They then examine the constellation of existing and emerging urban data technologies. The volume concludes by considering the social and political ramifications of data-driven urbanism, questioning whom it serves and for what ends. This book, the companion volume to 2016's Code and the City, offers the first critical reflection on the relationship between data, data practices and the city, and how we come to know and understand cities through data. It will be crucial reading for those who wish to understand and conceptualize urban big data, data-driven urbanism and the development of smart cities. Book jacket.

Contents:

Machine-generated contents note: 1. Data and the city / Gavin Mcardle

pt. I Data-driven cities

2. A City is not a galaxy: understanding the city through urban data / Martijn De Waal

3. Data about cities: redefining big, recasting small / Michael Batty

4. Data-driven urbanism / Rob Kitchin

pt. II Urban data

5. Crime data and analytics: accounting for crime in the city / Teresa Scassa

6. Data provenance and possibility: thoughts towards a provenance schema for urban data / Craig Dalton

7. Following data threads / James Merricks White

8. Sticky data: context and friction in the use of urban data proxies / Dietmar Offenhuber

pt. III Urban data technologies

9. Urban data and city dashboards: six key issues / Gavin McArdle

10. Sharing and analysing data in smart cities / Anahid Basiri

11. Blockchain city: economic, social and cognitive ledgers / Larissa Pschetz

12. Situating data infrastructures / Till Straube

13. Ontologizing the city / Tracey P. Lauriault

pt. IV Urban data cultures and power

14. Data cultures, power and the city / Jo Bates

15. Where are data citizens? / Evelyn Ruppert

16. Beyond quantification: a role for citizen science and community science in a smart city / Mordechai (Muki) Haklay.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138222625

1138222623

9781138222632

1138222631

OCLC:

992119756