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.
Edited by:
Glenda Amayo Caldwell,
Carl H. Smith,
Edward M. Clift
Series edited by:
Graham Cairns
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 178mm,
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 449g
ISBN: 9781783205608
ISBN 10: 1783205601
Series: Mediated Cities
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 15 June 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword: Graham Cairns Introduction: Glenda Amayo Caldwell and Carl Smith Section One: Embedding - The digital in the physical world Chapter 1: No need to fix: Strategic inclusivity in developing and managing the smart city: Alessandro Aurigi Chapter 2: Reimag(in)ing the city: Street View as storyspace: Aroussiak Gabrielian Chapter 3: Information, communication and the digital city: Cláudia Sofia Gonçalves Ferreira Lima Chapter 4 From the iron cage to the mediated city: Cristina Miranda de Almeida Section Two: Applications - The use of the digital in the everyday Chapter 5: Identity management, premediation and the city: Sandra Wilson and Lilia Gomez Flores Chapter 6: Urban utopics: The politics of the digital city view: Gavin Perin and Linda Matthews Chapter 7: Place, play and privacy: Exploring location-based applications and spatial experience: Melanie Chan Chapter 8: Post-digital approaches to mapping memory, heritage and identity in the city: Georgios Artopoulos and Nikolas Bakirtzis Chapter 9: Responsive transport environments: System thinking as a method to combine media architecture into a digital ecology to improve public transport: M. Hank Haeusler 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: Kristen Scott Chapter 11: Explorations of an urban intervention management system: A reflection on how to deal with urban complex systems and deliver dynamic change: Marta A. G. Miguel, Richard Laing and Quazi Mahtab Zaman Chapter 12: Innovative urban mobility shaped by users through pervasive information and communication technologies: Marco Zilvetti, Matteo Conti and Fausto Brevi Chapter 13: Blurring the physical boundaries of the city: Media architecture and urban informatics for community engagement: Glenda Amayo Caldwell and Mirko Guaralda Epilogue : Edward M. Clift Notes on Contributors Index
Edward M. Clift is president of Brooks Institute in Ventura, California. Glenda Amayo Caldwell is a researcher in the Urban Informatics Research Lab and a Lecturer in Architecture at the School of Design, Queensland University of Technology.
