Digital futures and the city of today : new technologies and physical spaces / edited by Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Carl H. Smith and Edward M. Clift.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caldwell, Glenda Amayo, editor.

Smith, Carl H. (Carl Henry), 1895- editor.

Clift, Edward Montgomery, editor.

Series:

Mediated cities series.

Mediated cities series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Effect of technological innovations on.

Cities and towns.

City planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Intellect, 2016.

Summary:

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 behaviour 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.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Section One: Embedding - The digital in the physical world; Chapter 1: No need to fix: Strategic inclusivity in developing and managing the smart city; Chapter 2: Reimag(in)ing the city: Street View as storyspace; Chapter 3: Information, communication and the digital city; Chapter 4: From the iron cage to the mediated city; Section Two: Applications - The use of the digital in the everyday; Chapter 5: Identity management, premediation and the city; Chapter 6: Urban utopics: The politics of the digital city view

Chapter 7: Place, play and privacy: Exploring location-based applications and spatial experienceChapter 8: Post-digital approaches to mapping memory, heritage and identity in the city; Chapter 9: Responsive transport environments: System thinking as a method to combine media architecture into a digital ecology to improve public transport; Section Three: Studies and trials - Examples of community uses of digital technologies; Chapter 10: Digital urban health and security: NYC's got an app for that

Chapter 11: Explorations of an urban intervention management system: A reflection on how to deal with urban complex systems and deliver dynamic changeChapter 12: Innovative urban mobility shaped by users through pervasive information and communication technologies; Chapter 13: Blurring the physical boundaries of the city: Media architecture and urban informatics for community engagement; Epilogue; Notes on Contributors; Index; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 6, 2016).

ISBN:

1-78320-562-8