[PDF] The Cities And Technology Series eBook

Author : Michael Nagenborg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 23,96 MB
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3030523136

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The contributions in this volume map out how technologies are used and designed to plan, maintain, govern, demolish, and destroy the city. The chapters demonstrate how urban technologies shape, and are shaped, by fundamental concepts and principles such as citizenship, publicness, democracy, and nature. The many authors herein explore how to think of technologically mediated urban space as part of the human condition. The volume will thus contribute to the much-needed discussion on technology-enabled urban futures from the perspective of the philosophy of technology. This perspective also contributes to the discussion and process of making cities ‘smart’ and just. This collection appeals to students, researchers, and professionals within the fields of philosophy of technology, urban planning, and engineering.

Author : Gerrylynn K. Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1134636121

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Designed to be used on its own or as a companion volume to the American Cities and Technology textbook. Chronologically, this volume ranges from the earliest technological dimensions of Amerindian settlements to the 'wired city' concept of the 1960s and internet communications of the 1990s.Its focus extends beyond the US to include telecomunications in Asian cities in the late 20th century. The topics covered: * the rise of the skyscraper *the coming of the automobile age * relations between private and public transport * the development of infrastructural technologies and systems * the implications of electronic communications * the emergence of city planning.

Author : Gerrylynn K. Roberts
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 37,70 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415200844

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Looks at the social history of technology. Among the issues discussed are the rise of the skyscraper, the coming of the automobile age, relations between private and public transport, & the development of infrastructural technologies.

Author : David C. Goodman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 14,90 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415200820

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The European Cities and Technology Reader is divided into three main sections presenting key readings on: Cities of the Industrial Revolution (to 1870), European Cities since 1870 and the Urban Technology Transfer.

Author : Colin Chant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 2005-11-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 1134636202

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Author : Carlo Ratti
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 43,58 MB
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0300221134

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Since cities emerged ten thousand years ago, they have become one of the most impressive artifacts of humanity. But their evolution has been anything but linear—cities have gone through moments of radical change, turning points that redefine their very essence. In this book, a renowned architect and urban planner who studies the intersection of cities and technology argues that we are in such a moment. The authors explain some of the forces behind urban change and offer new visions of the many possibilities for tomorrow’s city. Pervasive digital systems that layer our cities are transforming urban life. The authors provide a front-row seat to this change. Their work at the MIT Senseable City Laboratory allows experimentation and implementation of a variety of urban initiatives and concepts, from assistive condition-monitoring bicycles to trash with embedded tracking sensors, from mobility to energy, from participation to production. They call for a new approach to envisioning cities: futurecraft, a symbiotic development of urban ideas by designers and the public. With such participation, we can collectively imagine, examine, choose, and shape the most desirable future of our cities.

Author : Open University
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 10,15 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780415200868

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Designed to be used on its own or as a companion volume to the textbook, this book offers in-depth readings on the technological dimensions of US cities from the earliest settlements to the internet communications of the 1990s.