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Title Digital futures and the city of today : new technologies and physical spaces / edited by Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Carl H. Smith and Edward M. Clift ; series editor: Graham Cairns, AMPS
Published ©20
Bristol, UK : Intellect, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (x, 267 pages) : illustrations
Series Mediated cities series
Mediated cities series.
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
Summary In the contemporary city, the physical infrastructure and sensorial experiences of two millennia are now interwoven 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 analyze the work of architects, designers, media specialists, and a growing number of community activists, laying out a multifaceted view of the complex integrated phenomenon of the contemporary city. Split into three relevant 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Cities and towns -- Effect of technological innovations on.
City planning.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Cities and towns -- Effect of technological innovations on
City planning
Form Electronic book
Author Caldwell, Glenda Amayo, editor
Smith, Carl H. (Of Ravensbourne (College)), editor.
Clift, Edward Montgomery, editor
ISBN 178320561X
9781783205615
Other Titles Digital futures & the city of today