Digital Futures and the City of Today

Edward M. Clift is president of Brooks Institute in Ventura, California.Glenda Amayo Caldwell is a researcher in the Urban Informatics Research Lab and a Lecturer in Architecture at the School of Design, Queensland University of Technology.

• Foreword: Graham CairnsIntroduction: Glenda Amayo Caldwell and Carl SmithSection One: Embedding - The digital in the physical worldChapter 1: No need to fix: Strategic inclusivity in developing and managing the smart city:  Alessandro AurigiChapter 2: Reimag(in)ing the city: Street View as storyspace: Aroussiak GabrielianChapter 3: Information, communication and the digital city: Cláudia Sofia Gonçalves Ferreira LimaChapter 4 From the iron cage to the mediated city: Cristina Miranda de AlmeidaSection Two: Applications - The use of the digital in the everydayChapter 5: Identity management, premediation and the city: Sandra Wilson and Lilia Gomez FloresChapter 6: Urban utopics: The politics of the digital city view: Gavin Perin and Linda MatthewsChapter 7: Place, play and privacy: Exploring location-based applications and spatial experience: Melanie ChanChapter 8: Post-digital approaches to mapping memory, heritage and identity in the city: Georgios Artopoulos and Nikolas BakirtzisChapter 9: Responsive transport environments: System thinking as a method to combine media architecture into a digital ecology to improve public transport: M. Hank HaeuslerSection Three: Studies and trials - Examples of community uses of digital technologiesChapter 10: Digital urban health and security: NYC’s got an app for that: Kristen ScottChapter 11: Explorations of an urban intervention management system: A reflection on how to deal with urban complex systems and deliver dynamic change: Marta A. G. Miguel, Richard Laing and Quazi Mahtab ZamanChapter 12: Innovative urban mobility shaped by users through pervasive information and communication technologies: Marco Zilvetti, Matteo Conti and Fausto BreviChapter 13: Blurring the physical boundaries of the city: Media architecture and urban informatics for community engagement: Glenda Amayo Caldwell and Mirko GuaraldaEpilogue : Edward M. CliftNotes on ContributorsIndex