Title & Author:

Sentient city : ubiquitous computing, architecture, and the future of urban space / edited by Mark Shepard.

Publication:

New York City : Architectural League of New York ; Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2011.

Description:

229 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Toward the sentient city / Mark Shepard -- Systems, objectified / Hadas Steiner -- Case studies -- New interaction partners for environmental governance / Amphibioous Architecture: David Benjamin, Soo-in Yang (The Living), Natalie Jeremijenko (xDesign Environmental Health Clinic) -- Structuring participation for an energy commons / Natural Fuse: Usman Haque, Nitipak "Dot" Samsen, Ai Hasegawa (Haque Design + Research) -- Urban digestive systems / Trash Track: MIT SENSEable City Lab -- An intentional failure for the near future / Too Samrt City: David Jimison, JooYoun Paek -- Situating knowledge work in contemporary public spaces / Breakout!: Escape from the Office: Anthony Townsend [and others] -- Essays -- The action is the form / Keller Easterling -- Interaction anxieties / Omar Khan -- New spatial intelligence, or the tree allowed to grow freely, but o man's pattern / Dan Hill -- Boxes towards Bananas: dispersal, intelligence and animal structures / Matthew Fuller -- Unsettling topographic representation / Saskia Sassen -- The urban culture of sentient cities: from an internet of things to a public sphere of things / Matijn de Waal -- Space, finance, and new technologies / Kazys Varnelis -- Your mobility for sale / Trebor Scholz -- Comforts, crisis, and the rise of DIY urbanism / Mimi Zeiger -- Toward the sentient city: expecting the extensible and transmissible city / Anne Galloway -- Pstscript: notes on survival in the sentient city / Mark Shepard.

Summary:

"Our cities are "smart" and getting smarter as information processing capability is embedded throughout more and more of our urban infrastructure. Few of us object to traffic light control systems that respond to the ebbs and flows of city traffic; but we might be taken aback when discount coupons for our favourite espresso drink are beamed to our mobile phones as we walk past a Starbucks. Sentient City explores the experience of living in a city that can remember, correlate, and anticipate. Five teams of architects, artists, and technologists imagine a variety of future interactions that take place as computing leaves the desktop and spills out onto the sidewalks, streets, and public spaces of the city."--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780262515863 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0262515865 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture and technology.
Architecture and society.
Information technology Social aspects.
Cities and towns Effect of technological innovations on.
Architecture et technologie.
Architecture et société.
Technologie de l'information Aspect social.
Villes Effets des innovations sur.
Architektur
Stadtentwicklung
Ubiquitous Computing
Arkitektur och samhälle.
Informationsteknologi sociala aspekter.

Added entries:

Shepard, Mark.
Wessner, Gregory.
Steiner, Hadas A.
Easterling, Keller, 1959-
Khan, Omar, architect
Hill, Dan, designer
Fuller, Matthew
Sassen, Saskia
Waal, Martijn de
Varnelis, Kazys
Scholz, Trebor.
Zeiger, Mimi
Galloway, Anne.
Architectural League of New York

Ubiquitous computing, architecture, and the future of urban space

Holdings:

Location: Library main 271587
Call No.: BIB 204773
Status: Available