Screen LibraryDecoding the city : urbanism in the age of big data /
Thetwo authorsof the MIT based SENSEable City Lab show how Big Data change reality and, hence, the way we deal with the city. They demonstrate how the Lab interprets digital data as material that can be used for the formulation of a different urban future. The publication also looks at the negative...
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Birkhauser,
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| Publisher Address: | Basel/Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2014] ©2014 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Thetwo authorsof the MIT based SENSEable City Lab show how Big Data change reality and, hence, the way we deal with the city. They demonstrate how the Lab interprets digital data as material that can be used for the formulation of a different urban future. The publication also looks at the negative aspects of the city-related data acquisition and control. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(192pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | 50 farb. Abb., 25 schw.-w. Fotos, 25 schw.-w. Zeichn. |
| ISBN: | 9783038213925 |
| Index Number: | HT166 |
| CLC: | TU984 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Catching the World s Eyes / Hubcab Exploring the Benefits of Shared Taxi Services / Data Availability / Data Relevance: Evaluating Real- Time Urban Information Usage in Singapore / Tracking Waste to Reduce Waste / New York Talk Exchange: Revealing Urban Dynamics through the Global Telecommunications Network / The City as a Digital Public Space Notes for the Design of Live Urban Data Platforms / City Portraits and Caricatures / Computational Models of Mobility: A Perspective from Mobile Phone Data / Seeing the City through Data / Seeing Data through the City / Networks of the Built Environment / How Polycentric Are Our Cities? / The Kind of Problem a City Is: New Perspectives on the Nature of Cities from Complex Systems Theory / Digital Approach to Regional Delineation / Biographies. |