Scaling the Smart City
The Design and Ethics of Urban Technology
- 1st Edition - July 22, 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, The Design and Ethics of Urban Technology engages with the smart city as a problem of scale. It disentangles the smart city from its corporate and technocra… Read more
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Request a sales quoteScaling the Smart City, The Design and Ethics of Urban Technology engages with the smart city as a problem of scale. It disentangles the smart city from its corporate and technocratic strong hold by presenting an accessible design framework that productively aligns philosophical thinking on technology with foundational technical understandings of urban technology and smart system design. Scaling the Smart City complements and mediates between critical social theory perspectives of the smart city and technically comprehensive case studies. It examines these case examples and critiques design prototypes by threading the overarching principles of the smart city through urban, spatial, and personal scales.
The knowledge and know-how to design and create urban technologies and smart cities is steadily moving from a niche field to a core industry competency. Scaling the Smart City outlines a unique cross scalar design framework, developed to teach smart cities design to designers and engineers. It unpacks the "backbox" of smart city initiatives and demystifies physical computing system design concepts. The book’s analysis of real-world case examples and design prototypes aims to demonstrate 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. It also explores the ethical implications of urban technologies and smart city initiatives.
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 understandings of urban technologies and smart cities for designers
- Leverages a selection of real-world smart city case examples and urban technology 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, diagramming and flow charts to illustrate urban technology concepts, configurations, sequences, interactivity, and technical systems alongside human-technology mediation analysis
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
Part 1 Smart thinking
1. Cross-scalar thinking and the smart city
2. Ethics and the smart city
3. Design frameworks for the smart city
Part 2 Smart design practice
4. Smart design for sticky places
5. Smart design for social orchestration
6. Smart design for sustainable choices
7. Smart design for cultural preservation
8. Smart Futures: Responsive and responsible design
- No. of pages: 225
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 22, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443184529
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