Smart cities as democratic ecologies
By: [edited by] Daniel Araya, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781137377197
Subjects: City planning; Environmental aspects; Urban Community development; Sustainable development
Description: This collection focuses on technology-driven changes in democracy and civic engagement in the design and development of the 'smart city', exploring new urban literacies and emergent social practices.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Nigel jacob; title: Foreword / Tim Campbell; title: Notes on contributors; title: Introduction: smart cities as democratic ecologies / Daniel Araya & Hassan Arif; title: Smart cities and the network society : towards commons-driven governance / Daniel Araya; title: Government's role in growing a smart city / Carlo Ratti, Matthew Claudel, and Alice Birolo; title: The generative city / Ayesha and Parag Khanna; title: Urban research machines : engaging the modern urban citizen / Anijo Punnen Mathew; title: Conversation and narrative in the smart city / Gerry Derksen, Piotr Michura and Stan Ruecker; title: Are creative and green cities also smart and clean? / Kevin Stolarick and Olga Smirnova; title: The reconfiguration of time and place after the emergence of peer-to-peer infrastructures : four future scenarios with an impact on urbanism / Vasilis Kostakis, Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Niaros; title: Smart cities : towards the surveillance society? / Tarun Wadhwa; title: Surviving the electronic panopticon : new lessons in democracy, surveillance, and community in young adult fiction / Kerry Mallan; title: Smart cities need smart people : Songdo, South Korea / Tony Kim and Michelle Selinger; title: Zoning experiments for smart cities / Roland Cole and Hassan Arif; title: Designing new mobilities for accessible cities : scenarios for seamless journeys / Barbara Adkins, Marianella Chamorro-Koc and Lisa Stafford; title: Extraurbia, or, the reconfiguration of spaces and flows in a time of spatial-financial crisis / Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis.