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Smart Cities - Antoine Picon

Smart Cities

A Spatialised Intelligence

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Buch | Softcover
176 Seiten
2015
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-1-119-07559-2 (ISBN)
CHF 53,85 inkl. MwSt
As cities compete globally, the Smart City has been touted as the important new strategic driver for regeneration and growth. Smart Cities are employing information and communication technologies in the quest for sustainable economic development and the fostering of new forms of collective life. This has made the Smart City an essential focus for engineers, architects, urban designers, urban planners, and politicians, as well as businesses such as CISCO, IBM and Siemens. Despite its broad appeal, few comprehensive books have been devoted to the subject so far, and even fewer have tried to relate it to cultural issues and to assume a truly critical stance by trying to decipher its consequences on urban space and experience. This cultural and critical lens is all the more important as the Smart City is as much an ideal permeated by Utopian beliefs as a concrete process of urban transformation. This ideal possesses a strong self-fulfilling character: our cities will become 'Smart' because we want them to.

This book opens with an examination of the technological reality on which Smart Cities are built, from the chips and sensors that enable us to monitor what happens within the infrastructure to the smartphones that connect individuals. Through these technologies, the urban space appears as activated, almost sentient. This activation generates two contrasting visions: on the one hand, a neo-cybernetic ambition to steer the city in the most efficient way; and on the other, a more bottom-up, participative approach in which empowered individuals invent new modes of cooperation. A thorough analysis of these two trends reveals them to be complementary. The Smart City of the near future will result from their mutual adjustment. In this process, urban space plays a decisive role. Smart Cities are contemporary with a 'spatial turn' of the digital. Based on key technological developments like geo-localisation and augmented reality, the rising importance of space explains the strategic role of mapping in the evolution of the urban experience. Throughout this exploration of some of the key dimensions of the Smart City, this book constantly moves from the technological to the spatial as well as from a critical assessment of existing experiments to speculations on the rise of a new form of collective intelligence. In the future, cities will become smarter in a much more literal way than what is often currently assumed.

Antoine Picon is the G Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is also researcher at the ?cole Nationale des Ponts et Chauss?es and President of the Fondation Le Corbusier. His current research focuses on contemporary issues around digital culture, architecture and the city.

Acknowledgements 005 

Introduction: A New Urban Ideal 009 

Spatialised Intelligence 011 

Technology, Space and Politics 015 

Chapter 1: The Advent of the Smart City, from Flow Management to Event Control 023 

Defining the Smart City 024 

Self-Fulfilling Fictions 030 

The Sentient and Sensory City 037 

Massive Quantities of Data 046 

What Happens 052 

Chapter 2: A Tale of Two Cities 067 

Neocybernetic Temptation 069 

The Cyborg-City Hypothesis 078 

Spontaneous City, Collaborative City 083 

The Digital Individual 091 

Chapter 3: Urban Intelligence, Space and Maps 105 

Augmented Reality and Geolocation 106 

Towards Three-Dimensional Urbanism 110 

A New Relationship to Infrastructure 119 

The Stakes of Representation 124 

A New Aesthetic 138 

Laboratories of Public Life in the Digital Age 140 

Conclusion: The Challenges of Intelligence 145 

The Limits of All-Digital Solutions 146 

The Necessary Diversification of Scenarios 149 

Public/Private 153 

From Event to History 154 

Bibliography 158 

Index 162 

Picture Credits 167

Reihe/Serie Architectural Design Primer
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 218 mm
Gewicht 363 g
Themenwelt Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 1-119-07559-9 / 1119075599
ISBN-13 978-1-119-07559-2 / 9781119075592
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