The City of Tomorrow

Sensors, Networks, Hackers, and the Future of Urban Life

Carlo Ratti, Matthew Claudel

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English

Yale University
28 June 2016

Architecture; Urban communities; Urban & municipal planning

Series: The Future Series

An internationally renowned architect, urban planner, and scholar describes the major technological forces driving the future of cities

Since cities emerged ten thousand years ago, they have become one of the most impressive artifacts of humanity. But their evolution has been anything but linear—cities have gone through moments of radical change, turning points that redefine their very essence. In this book, a renowned architect and urban planner who studies the intersection of cities and technology argues that we are in such a moment.

The authors explain some of the forces behind urban change and offer new visions of the many possibilities for tomorrow’s city. Pervasive digital systems that layer our cities are transforming urban life. The authors provide a front-row seat to this change. Their work at the MIT Senseable City Laboratory allows experimentation and implementation of a variety of urban initiatives and concepts, from assistive condition-monitoring bicycles to trash with embedded tracking sensors, from mobility to energy, from participation to production. They call for a new approach to envisioning cities: futurecraft, a symbiotic development of urban ideas by designers and the public. With such participation, we can collectively imagine, examine, choose, and shape the most desirable future of our cities.

By: Carlo Ratti, Matthew Claudel
Imprint: Yale University
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 277g
ISBN: 9780300204803
ISBN 10: 0300204809
Series: The Future Series
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 28 June 2016
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Carlo Ratti is an engineer, urban planner, and architect who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directs the Senseable City Laboratory, which investigates the intersection of technology and urban spaces. Matthew Claudel is a writer and researcher at the Senseable City Lab.

Reviews for The City of Tomorrow: Sensors, Networks, Hackers, and the Future of Urban Life

This is different. And it is brilliant. Ratti and Claudel give us a distinctive path to think through technical futures, far removed from the typical exaggerated versions of the present. They start with a fact: we are all enmeshed in distributed sensing ecosystems, and the more complex and intractable those systems, the more technical innovations we can think up. Thus the messy city, not the perfect lab, is ground zero. -Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Expulsions Ratti and Claudel provide remarkable insights into the city of tomorrow. A book that everyone who is interested in the future-and that is all of us-should explore. -Michael Batty, University College London