[PDF] Code And The City eBook

Author : Rob Kitchin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,75 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 9781138922112

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Code and the city : introduction / Rob Kitchin and Sung-Yueh Perng -- Code, coding, infrastructure, cities -- From a single line of code to an entire city : reframing the conceptual terrain of code/space / Rob Kitchin -- The internet of urban things / Paul Dourish -- Interfacing urban intelligence / Shannon Mattern -- Abstract urbanism / Matthew Fuller And Graham Harwood -- Code-traffic : code repositories, crowds and urban life / Adrian Mackenzie -- Locative media and mobile computing -- Digital social interactions in the city : reflecting on location-based social networks / Luigina Ciolfi And Gabriela Avram -- Feeling place in the city : strange ontologies and location-based social media / Leighton Evans -- Curating the city : urban interfaces and locative media as experimental platforms for cultural data / Nanna Verhoeff and Clancy Wilmott -- Moving applications : a multilayered approach to mobile computing / James Merricks White -- Exploring urban social media: selfiecity and on broadway / Lev Manovich -- Governance, politics, knowledge -- Digital urbanism in crises / Monika Büscher, Xaroula Kerasidou, Michael Liegl and Katrina Petersen -- Coding alternative modes of governance : learning from experimental "peer to peer cities" / Alison Powell -- Encountering the city at hacking events / Sophia Maalsen and Sung-Yueh Perng -- Semantic cities : coded geopolitics and rise of the semantic web / Heather Ford and Mark Graham -- Cities and context : the codification of small areas through geodemographic classification / Alex Singleton

Author : Eran Ben-Joseph
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN :

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Traces the evolution of urban development codes and standards, examines their effect on city planning and design, and proposes alternatives that will encourage innovation.

Author : Elijah Anderson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 19,83 MB
Release : 2000-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0393070387

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Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice) Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules—based largely on an individual's ability to command respect—is a powerful and pervasive form of etiquette, governing the way in which people learn to negotiate public spaces. Elijah Anderson's incisive book delineates the code and examines it as a response to the lack of jobs that pay a living wage, to the stigma of race, to rampant drug use, to alienation and lack of hope.

Author : Rob Kitchin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 11,25 MB
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317413806

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Software has become essential to the functioning of cities. It is deeply embedded into the systems and infrastructure of the built environment and is entrenched in the management and governance of urban societies. Software-enabled technologies and services enhance the ways in which we understand and plan cities. It even has an effect on how we manage urban services and utilities. Code and the City explores the extent and depth of the ways in which software mediates how people work, consume, communication, travel and play. The reach of these systems is set to become even more pervasive through efforts to create smart cities: cities that employ ICTs to underpin and drive their economy and governance. Yet, despite the roll-out of software-enabled systems across all aspects of city life, the relationship between code and the city has barely been explored from a critical social science perspective. This collection of essays seeks to fill that gap, and offers an interdisciplinary examination of the relationship between software and contemporary urbanism. This book will be of interest to those researching or studying smart cities and urban infrastructure.

Author : Michael Sorkin
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781878271792

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"Local Code is a prescription for urban health."-Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Architectural Record

Author : Anne Mikoleit
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,72 MB
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262016419

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A primer in urban literacy that teaches us in words and pictures what to notice if we want to understand the city. Cities speak, and this little book helps us understand their language. Considering the urban landscape not from the abstract perspective of an urban planner but from the viewpoint of an attentive observer, Urban Code offers 100 “lessons”—maxims, observations, and bite-size truths, followed by short essays—that teach us how to read the city. This is a user's guide to the city, a primer of urban literacy, at the pedestrian level. The reader (like the observant city stroller) can move from “People walk in the sunshine” (lesson 1) to “Street vendors are positioned according to the path of the sun” (lesson 2); consider possible connections between the fact that “Locals and tourists use the streets at different times” (lesson 41) and “Tourists stand still when they're looking at something” (lesson 68); and weigh the apparent contradiction of lesson 73, “Nightlife hotspots increase pedestrian traffic” and lesson 74, “People are afraid of the dark.” A lesson may seem self-evident (“Grocery stores are important local destinations”—of course they are!) but considered in the context of other lessons, it becomes part of a natural logic. With Urban Code, we learn what to notice if we want to understand the city. We learn to detect patterns in the relationships between people and the urban environment. Each lesson is accompanied by an icon-like image; in addition to these 100 drawings, thirty photographs of street scenes illustrate the text. The photographs are stills from films shot in the Manhattan neighborhood of SoHo; the lessons are inspired by the authors' observations of SoHo, but hold true for any cityscape.

Author : Shannon Mattern
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 18,74 MB
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1452955425

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For years, pundits have trumpeted the earthshattering changes that big data and smart networks will soon bring to our cities. But what if cities have long been built for intelligence, maybe for millennia? In Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Shannon Mattern advances the provocative argument that our urban spaces have been “smart” and mediated for thousands of years. Offering powerful new ways of thinking about our cities, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt goes far beyond the standard historical concepts of origins, development, revolutions, and the accomplishments of an elite few. Mattern shows that in their architecture, laws, street layouts, and civic knowledge—and through technologies including the telephone, telegraph, radio, printing, writing, and even the human voice—cities have long negotiated a rich exchange between analog and digital, code and clay, data and dirt, ether and ore. Mattern’s vivid prose takes readers through a historically and geographically broad range of stories, scenes, and locations, synthesizing a new narrative for our urban spaces. Taking media archaeology to the city’s streets, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt reveals new ways to write our urban, media, and cultural histories.

Author : Silvio Carta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 14,1 MB
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1351007386

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Big Data, Code and the Discrete City explores how digital technologies are gradually changing the way in which the public space is designed by architects, managed by policymakers and experienced by individuals. Smart city technologies are superseding the traditional human experience that has characterised the making of the public space until today. This book examines how computers see the public space and the effect of algorithms, artificial intelligences and automated processes on the human experience in public spaces. Divided into three parts, the first part of this book examines the notion of discreteness in its origins and applications to computer sciences. The second section presents a dual perspective: it explores the ways in which public spaces are constructed by the computer-driven logic and then translated into control mechanisms, design strategies and software-aided design. This perspective also describes the way in which individuals perceive this new public space, through its digital logic, and discrete mechanisms (from Wi-Fi coverage to self-tracking). Finally, in the third part, this book scrutinises the discrete logic with which computers operate, and how this is permeating into aspects of city life. This book is valuable for anyone interested in urban studies and digital technologies, and more specifically in big data, urban informatics and public space.

Author : Robert Garfield
Publisher : Avery
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 20,64 MB
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1592409628

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Shows how men can develop a deeper friendship with other men.

Author : Charles L. Marohn, Jr.
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1119564816

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A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life. Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live.