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Title Decoding the city : urbanism in the age of big data / Dietmar Offenhuber, Carlo Ratti, (eds)
Published Basel, Switzerland : Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Catching the world's eyes / Fabien Girardin -- Hubcab : exploring the benefits of shared taxi services / Michael Szell, Benedikt Groß -- Data availability, data relevance : evaluating real-time urban information usage in Singapore / Anthony Vanky -- Tracking waste to reduce waste / David Lee -- New York talk exchange : revealing urban dynamics through the global telecommunications network / Francisca M. Rojas -- The city as a digital public space : notes for the design of live urban data platforms / Kristian Kloeckl -- City portraits and caricatures / Pedro Cruz, Penousal Machado -- Computational models of mobility : a perspective from mobile phone data / Philip Hövel, Filippo Simini, Chaoming Song, Albert-László Barabási -- Seeing the city through data, seeing data through the city / Kael Greco -- Networks of the built environment / Andreas Sevtsuk -- How polycentric are our cities? / Markus Schläpfer -- The kind of problem a city is : new perspectives on the nature of cities from complex systems theory / Luís M.A. Bettencourt -- Digital approach to regional delineation / Stanislav Sobolevsky
Summary "The MIT based SENSEable City Lab under Carlo Ratti is one of the research centers that deal with the flow of people and goods, but also of refuse that moves around the world. Experience with large-scale infrastructure projects suggest that more complex and above all flexible answers must be sought to questions of transportation or disposal. This edition, edited by Dietmar Offenhuber and Carlo Ratti, shows how Big Data change reality and, hence, the way we deal with the city. It discusses the impact of real-time data on architecture and urban planning, using examples developed in the SENSEable City Lab. They demonstrate how the Lab interprets digital data as material that can be used for the formulation of a different urban future. It also looks at the negative aspects of the city-related data acquisition and control. The authors address issues with which urban planning disciplines will work intensively in the future: questions that not only radically and critically review, but also change fundamentally, the existing tasks and how the professions view their own roles."--The Publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes In English
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Subject City planning -- Data processing
Data mining.
Data Mining
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
City planning -- Data processing
Data mining
Stadtentwicklung
Big Data
Form Electronic book
Author Offenhuber, Dietmar, editor.
Ratti, Carlo, editor.
ISBN 9783038213925
3038213926