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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818756303321

Titolo

Digital futures and the city of today : new technologies and physical spaces / / edited by Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Carl H. Smith and Edward M. Clift

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol : , : Intellect, , 2016

ISBN

1-78320-562-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Mediated cities series

Disciplina

307.116

Soggetti

Cities and towns - Effect of technological innovations on

City planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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