Screen LibraryThe urban improvise : improvisation-based design for hybrid cities /
A book for architects, designers, planners, and urbanites that explores how cities can embrace improvisation to improve urban life. The built environment in today's hybrid cities is changing radically. The pervasiveness of networked mobile and embedded devices has transformed a predominantly st...
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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven, CT : |
| Publication Dates: | [2020] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
A book for architects, designers, planners, and urbanites that explores how cities can embrace improvisation to improve urban life. The built environment in today's hybrid cities is changing radically. The pervasiveness of networked mobile and embedded devices has transformed a predominantly stable background for human activity into spaces that have a more fluid behavior. Based on their capability to sense, compute, and act in real time, urban spaces have the potential to go beyond planned behaviors and, instead, change and adapt dynamically. These interactions resemble improvisation in the |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780300243048 0300243049 |
| Index Number: | HT166 |
| CLC: |
TU984 C912.81 |
| Call Number: | C912.81/K661 |