Decoding the City

Dietmar Offenhuber; Carlo Ratti

Published by Birkhäuser 2014

Decoding the City

Urbanism in the Age of Big Data

Dietmar Offenhuber and Carlo Ratti

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783038213925

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About this book

Big Data and urban planning

The MIT based SENSEable City Lab under Carlo Ratti is one of the research centers that deal with the flow of people and goods, but also of refuse that moves around the world. Experience with large-scale infrastructure projects suggest that more complex and above all flexible answers must be sought to questions of transportation or disposal. This edition, edited by Dietmar Offenhuber and Carlo Ratti, shows how Big Data change reality and, hence, the way we deal with the city. It discusses the impact of real-time data on architecture and urban planning, using examples developed in the SENSEable City Lab. They demonstrate how the Lab interprets digital data as material that can be used for the formulation of a different urban future. It also looks at the negative aspects of the city-related data acquisition and control. The authors address issues with which urban planning disciplines will work intensively in the future: questions that not only radically and critically review, but also change fundamentally, the existing tasks and how the professions view their own roles.

A current contribution to the discussion about Big Data and urbanism
Publication of the SENSEable City Lab at the renowned MIT

Author information

Dietmar Offenhuber, urban planner, assistant professor at Northeastern University; Carlo Ratti, Senseable City Lab, MIT

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	4
Introduction Dietmar Offenhuber and Carlo Ratti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
Data – Source and Collection
Catching the World’s Eyes Fabien Girardin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
Hubcab – Exploring the Benefits of Shared Taxi Services Michael Szell and Benedikt Groß Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
Data Availability / Data Relevance: Evaluating Real- Time Urban Information Usage in Singapore Anthony Vanky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
Tracking Waste to Reduce Waste David Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
New York Talk Exchange: Revealing Urban Dynamics through the Global Telecommunications Network Francisca M. Rojas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Representation – Models and Visualization
The City as a Digital Public Space – Notes for the Design of Live Urban Data Platforms Kristian Kloeckl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
City Portraits and Caricatures Pedro Cruz and Penousal Machado Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Computational Models of Mobility: A Perspective from Mobile Phone Data Philipp Hövel, Filippo Simini, Chaoming Song and Albert-László Barabási Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
Seeing the City through Data / Seeing Data through the City Kael Greco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Places – Implications for Design
Networks of the Built Environment Andres Sevtsuk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
How Polycentric Are Our Cities? Markus Schläpfer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
The Kind of Problem a City Is: New Perspectives on the Nature of Cities from Complex Systems Theory Luís M. A. Bettencourt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
Digital Approach to Regional Delineation Stanislav Sobolevsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
Biographies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191

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Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Audience: Architects, city planners, urban sociologists
Pages
- Main content: 192
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 50
- Images: 25
- Line drawings: 25
Keywords: Urbanism; Big data

eBook

Published: September 5, 2014
ISBN: 9783038213925

Hardcover

Published: August 28, 2014
ISBN: 9783038215974