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Intelligent infrastructure : zip cars, invisible networks, and urban transformation / edited by T.F. Tierney.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016Description: 1 online resource (x, 262 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813939414
  • 0813939410
  • 9780813939421
  • 0813939429
  • 9780813939421
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Intelligent infrastructure.DDC classification:
  • 388.4 23
LOC classification:
  • TE228.3 .I555 2017eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Soft Systems -- Conceptual Roots of Infrastructure / Mitchell Schwarzer -- Tinkering toward (A)utopia: Telecommunications and Transit in the Twentieth-First-Century City / Anthony Townsend -- Phantom Tollbooth Plaza / Jordan Geiger -- pt. II Mashed Systems -- Mobile Networks as Tactical Transportation / Gerald Tierney -- (Driver)less Is More / Kai-Uwe Bergmann -- Ubiquitous Multimodality: A Vision for Urban Mobility in the (Near) Future / Christine Outram -- Future of Personal Urban Mobility: An Engineer's Perspective / Sven Beiker -- pt. III Hard Systems -- Automobile, the City, and the New Urban Mobilities / Frederic Stout -- Rethinking Urban Utopias: A Manifesto for Self-Supported Infrastructure, Technology, and Territory / Mitchell Joachim -- Urban Mobility in the Informal City / Hubert Klumpner -- Paradox of Urban Mobility and the Spatialization of Technological Utopia / Chamee Yang.
Summary: "While many of its traditional elements, such as roads and utilities, do not change, urban infrastructure is undergoing a fascinating and necessary transformation in the wake of new information and communication technologies. This volume brings together many of the most important new voices in the fields impacting modern urban infrastructure to explore this revolutionary change in the city. Increasingly, it is connective systems rather than built forms that bind a city together. Intelligent infrastructure confers upon a city previously unimagined levels of adaptability, with mobile telephony serving to organize people and events on the move and in real time. Beginning with a consideration of invisible networks--the sociohistorical systems that contribute to and constitute urbanity--the essays collected here examine a variety of actual tools, from handheld devices to autonomous vehicles, within a fully networked built environment: the smart city. This book argues that knowledge of both the visible and invisible components--information, energy, sustainability, transportation, housing, and social practices--are critical to understanding the urban environment. The dynamic and diverse cast of contributors includes Mitchell Schwarzer, Frederic Stout, Anthony Townsend, Carlo Ratti of the MIT SENSEable City Lab, Mitchell Joachim of Terreform ONE, and many other innovators who are changing the urban landscape."--Publisher's description.
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Machine generated contents note: pt. I Soft Systems -- Conceptual Roots of Infrastructure / Mitchell Schwarzer -- Tinkering toward (A)utopia: Telecommunications and Transit in the Twentieth-First-Century City / Anthony Townsend -- Phantom Tollbooth Plaza / Jordan Geiger -- pt. II Mashed Systems -- Mobile Networks as Tactical Transportation / Gerald Tierney -- (Driver)less Is More / Kai-Uwe Bergmann -- Ubiquitous Multimodality: A Vision for Urban Mobility in the (Near) Future / Christine Outram -- Future of Personal Urban Mobility: An Engineer's Perspective / Sven Beiker -- pt. III Hard Systems -- Automobile, the City, and the New Urban Mobilities / Frederic Stout -- Rethinking Urban Utopias: A Manifesto for Self-Supported Infrastructure, Technology, and Territory / Mitchell Joachim -- Urban Mobility in the Informal City / Hubert Klumpner -- Paradox of Urban Mobility and the Spatialization of Technological Utopia / Chamee Yang.

"While many of its traditional elements, such as roads and utilities, do not change, urban infrastructure is undergoing a fascinating and necessary transformation in the wake of new information and communication technologies. This volume brings together many of the most important new voices in the fields impacting modern urban infrastructure to explore this revolutionary change in the city. Increasingly, it is connective systems rather than built forms that bind a city together. Intelligent infrastructure confers upon a city previously unimagined levels of adaptability, with mobile telephony serving to organize people and events on the move and in real time. Beginning with a consideration of invisible networks--the sociohistorical systems that contribute to and constitute urbanity--the essays collected here examine a variety of actual tools, from handheld devices to autonomous vehicles, within a fully networked built environment: the smart city. This book argues that knowledge of both the visible and invisible components--information, energy, sustainability, transportation, housing, and social practices--are critical to understanding the urban environment. The dynamic and diverse cast of contributors includes Mitchell Schwarzer, Frederic Stout, Anthony Townsend, Carlo Ratti of the MIT SENSEable City Lab, Mitchell Joachim of Terreform ONE, and many other innovators who are changing the urban landscape."--Publisher's description.

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