Fábio Duarte, Rodrigo Jose Firmino

Unplugging the City (eBook, ePUB)

The Urban Phenomenon and its Sociotechnical Controversies

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Unplugging the City: the urban phenomenon and its sociotechnical controversies proposes a conceptual and methodological framework for analysing the urban phenomenon as a technological assemblage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315523231
• Artikelnr.: 49992696

Autorenporträt

Fábio Duarte is a scholar and research lead at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Senseable City Lab and professor at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR), Brazil. Duarte is an urban planner with a PhD in Communications from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and has been a research associate at Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Rodrigo Firmino is professor in urban management at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR), Brazil. Firmino is an architect and urban planner with a PhD in Urban Planning from Newcastle University, UK, and has been a visiting scholar at the University College London (2015), and a postdoc fellow at the University of São Paulo (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Introduction From Shared Wheels to Controlled Spaces Chapter 1
Unplugging the City: Mobility and Territorialization of Urban
Sociotechnical Systems Chapter 2 Disassembling Bike-Sharing Systems:
Surveillance, Advertising, and the Social Inequalities of a Global
Technological Arrangement Chapter 3 Learning from Failures: Unearthing Rail
Proposals in Curitiba's Bus Rapid Transit Chapter 4 Driverless Cars:
Glossing the Rugged Pavements Ahead Chapter 5 Constructing New Invisible
Territories through the Monitoring of People and Spaces Chapter 6 The
Weakest Link: Unplugging Digital Territorialities Chapter 7 Planning
Delusion: Between Prescription and Provocation Chapter 8 Urban
Phantasmagorias: The Immanent Cities of the Future Chapter 9 Folie à Deux -
A Salute to Mark Weiser