Scaling the smart city : the design and ethics of urban technology / Nicole Gardner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gardner, Nicole, author.

Series:

Smart Cities Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smart cities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Elsevier Science & Technology 2024

Summary:

This book explores the design and ethical implications of implementing urban technology in smart cities. It addresses the scaling of smart city concepts from global to local levels, emphasizing the operational and technological challenges involved. The author, Nicole Gardner, delves into the ethical concerns of smart city development, including potential harms and the necessity of incorporating ethics into urban design. The book provides insights into designing urban spaces that are socially engaging, sustainable, and culturally sensitive. It targets professionals and researchers in urban planning, architecture, and technology fields, aiming to foster responsible and responsive urban design practices. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Intro

Scaling the Smart City: The Design and Ethics of Urban Technology

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Part I: Smart thinking

Chapter 1: Scaling the smart city

1.1. Introduction: The smart city as a scale-making process

1.2. The global, grand, and urban scales of the smart city

1.3. The technological scales of the smart city

1.4. The operational scales of the smart city

1.5. The actually existing scales of the smart city

1.6. (re)scaling the smart city

References

Chapter 2: Ethics and the smart city

2.1. The smart city's ethical turn

2.2. Smart city ethics

2.3. Smart city harms

2.4. Ethics by design

2.5. Conclusion

Chapter 3: Designing and prototyping smarter urban spaces

3.1. Defining urban technology

3.2. Designing urban technology

3.3. Interdisciplinary and integrated urban technology design

3.4. Physical computing

3.5. The Ubiquitous Cities design studio

3.6. Problem definition framework

3.7. Urban technology prototyping

3.8. Conclusion

Part II: Smart design practice

Chapter 4: Smart design for urban activation and placemaking

4.1. How places are made

4.2. How places are networked

4.3. Digitally mediated placemaking

4.4. Smart placemaking

4.5. Smart urban amenitization

4.6. Smart urban activation

4.7. Smart urban safety and security

4.8. Design reflections and ethical dimensions

4.9. Conclusion

Chapter 5: Smart design for socially engaging environments

5.1. Socially engaging urban environments

5.2. Social cohesion and social capital

5.3. Mobilizing social capital in the smart city

5.4. Social encounters, inattention, and diversion

5.5. Proxemics and interactive spaces

5.6. Smart social engagement through play.

5.7. Design reflections and ethical dimensions

5.8. Conclusion

Chapter 6: Smart design for sustainable behaviors

6.1. Smart sustainability

6.2. Designing sustainable transitions

6.3. Nudges and choice architecture

6.4. Persuasive technologies

6.5. Design reflections and ethical dimensions

6.6. Conclusion

Chapter 7: Smart design for cultural heritage

7.1. Smart cultural heritage

7.2. Mobile cultural heritage interpretation

7.3. Situated cultural heritage interpretation

7.4. Design reflections and ethical dimensions

7.5. Conclusion

Chapter 8: Smart futures: Responsive and responsible design

8.1. Responsive design

8.2. Responsible design

8.3. The rescaled smart city

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version: Gardner, Nicole Scaling the Smart City

ISBN:

9780443184536