Scaling the Smart City
The Design and Ethics of Urban Technology
- 1st Edition - July 3, 2024
- Author: Nicole Gardner
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 4 5 2 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 4 5 3 - 6
Scaling the Smart City engages with the smart city as a problem of scale. It disentangles the smart city from its corporate and technocratic stronghold by presenting an accessibl… Read more
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Request a sales quoteScaling the Smart City engages with the smart city as a problem of scale. It disentangles the smart city from its corporate and technocratic stronghold by presenting an accessible design framework that productively aligns philosophical thinking on technology with foundational technical understandings of urban technology and smart system design.
The knowledge and know-how to design and create urban technologies and smart cities are steadily moving from a niche field to a core industry competency. This book outlines a cross-scalar design framework, developed to teach smart city design to designers and engineers. It unpacks smart city initiatives and demystifies physical computing system design concepts, while complementing and mediating between critical social theory perspectives of the smart city and technically comprehensive case studies. The book’s analysis of real-world case examples and design prototypes demonstrates how design thinking and practice can better engage with the ethical implications of creating urban technologies and smart systems for society. It uses a clear, accessible, and instructive style of writing that synthesizes relevant scholarship and concepts to develop the reader’s foundational understanding of the contemporary smart city paradigm.
This book is an invaluable resource for readers in the established fields and professions of design, architecture, urban design, and city planning, as well as the emerging fields of urban technology and urban interaction design.
- Connects theory and practice to extend understanding of urban technologies and smart cities
- Leverages real-world case examples and design prototypes to explore critical philosophical and ethical questions around the implications of technology in the urban and built environment
- Provides an accessible and illustrative guide to technical principles of urban sensing and sense making apparatus foundational to the design of urban technology and smart cities
- Utilizes visual iconography and diagramming to illustrate urban technology concepts, configurations, sequences, interactivity, and technical systems
Design educators, academics, and students; scholars working in the field of critical smart cities scholarship; undergraduate and Masters students in a wide range of design programs; design professionals such as architects, urban designers, urban planners, industrial designers, interaction designers and creative technologists; engineers and computer scientists; local governments and professionals in municipal planning roles engaged in data-driven applications and smart initiatives in urban design and governance
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: Smart thinking
- Chapter 1 Scaling the smart city
- Abstract
- 1.1 Introduction: The smart city as a scale-making process
- 1.2 The global, grand, and urban scales of the smart city
- 1.3 The technological scales of the smart city
- 1.4 The operational scales of the smart city
- 1.5 The actually existing scales of the smart city
- 1.6 (re)scaling the smart city
- References
- Chapter 2 Ethics and the smart city
- Abstract
- 2.1 The smart city's ethical turn
- 2.2 Smart city ethics
- 2.3 Smart city harms
- 2.4 Ethics by design
- 2.5 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 3 Designing and prototyping smarter urban spaces
- Abstract
- 3.1 Defining urban technology
- 3.2 Designing urban technology
- 3.3 Interdisciplinary and integrated urban technology design
- 3.4 Physical computing
- 3.5 The Ubiquitous Cities design studio
- 3.6 Problem definition framework
- 3.7 Urban technology prototyping
- 3.8 Conclusion
- References
- Part II: Smart design practice
- Chapter 4 Smart design for urban activation and placemaking
- Abstract
- 4.1 How places are made
- 4.2 How places are networked
- 4.3 Digitally mediated placemaking
- 4.4 Smart placemaking
- 4.5 Smart urban amenitization
- 4.6 Smart urban activation
- 4.7 Smart urban safety and security
- 4.8 Design reflections and ethical dimensions
- 4.9 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 5 Smart design for socially engaging environments
- Abstract
- 5.1 Socially engaging urban environments
- 5.2 Social cohesion and social capital
- 5.3 Mobilizing social capital in the smart city
- 5.4 Social encounters, inattention, and diversion
- 5.5 Proxemics and interactive spaces
- 5.6 Smart social engagement through play
- 5.7 Design reflections and ethical dimensions
- 5.8 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 6 Smart design for sustainable behaviors
- Abstract
- 6.1 Smart sustainability
- 6.2 Designing sustainable transitions
- 6.3 Nudges and choice architecture
- 6.4 Persuasive technologies
- 6.5 Design reflections and ethical dimensions
- 6.6 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 7 Smart design for cultural heritage
- Abstract
- 7.1 Smart cultural heritage
- 7.2 Mobile cultural heritage interpretation
- 7.3 Situated cultural heritage interpretation
- 7.4 Design reflections and ethical dimensions
- 7.5 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 8 Smart futures: Responsive and responsible design
- Abstract
- 8.1 Responsive design
- 8.2 Responsible design
- 8.3 The rescaled smart city
- References
- Glossary
- Index
- No. of pages: 225
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 3, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443184529
- eBook ISBN: 9780443184536
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