Shaping Smart for Better Cities

Shaping Smart for Better Cities

by Alessandro Aurigi, Nancy Odendaal
Released November 2020
Publisher(s): Academic Press
ISBN: 9780128187449

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Book description

Shaping Smart for Better Cities powerfully demonstrates the range of theoretical and practical challenges, opportunities and success factors involved in successfully deploying digital technologies in cities, focusing on the importance of recognizing local context and multi-layered urban relationships in designing successful urban interventions. The first section, ‘Rethinking Smart (in) Places’ interrogates the smart city from a theoretical vantage point. The second part, ‘Shaping Smart Places’ examines various case studies critically. Hence the volume offers an intellectual resource that expands on the current literature, but also provides a pedagogical resource to universities as well as a reflective opportunity for practitioners. The cases allow for an examination of the practical implications of smart interventions in space, whilst the theoretical reflections enable expansion of the literature. Students are encouraged to learn from case studies and apply that learning in design. Academics will gain from the learning embedded in the documentation of the case studies in different geographic contexts, while practitioners can apply their learning to the conceptualisation of new forms of technology use.

  • Demonstrates how to adapt smart urban interventions for hyper-local context in geographic parameters, spatial relationships, and socio-political characteristics
  • Provides a problem-solving approach based on specific smart place examples, applicable to real-life urban management
  • Offers insights from numerous case studies of smart cities interventions in real civic spaces

Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. Contributors
  6. Authors’ biography
  7. Chapter 1: Introducing shaping smart for better cities
    1. Abstract
    2. Setting a challenge around smart place quality
    3. Grounding, and the layered complexity of place
    4. Shaping smart place top-down and bottom-up
    5. Designing smart places
    6. Foregrounding agency and context for coshaping smart
    7. Toward a future of better smart places?
  8. Section A: Designing and shaping smart places
    1. Chapter 2: Designing smart places: Toward a holistic, recombinant approach
      1. Abstract
      2. Introduction
      3. The making of place as a nonlinear endeavor
      4. Smart place design: Determinism, partial approaches, and recombination
      5. Toward a holistic design of recombinant places
      6. Recombined context
      7. Programming place through extended affordances
      8. Conclusions: Ideas for a recombinant, holistic approach to smart place design
    2. Chapter 3: Responsive public spaces: Five mechanisms for the design of public space in the era of networked urbanism
      1. Abstract
      2. Acknowledgments
      3. Introduction
      4. Public space in the era of networked urbanism
      5. Responsive technologies: Five mechanisms for public space
      6. Discussion
    3. Chapter 4: Smart plays
      1. Abstract
      2. Acknowledgments
      3. Play in culture and society
      4. Scaffolds of experimental learning and play
      5. Cable car projects: Gothenburg, SE; IJbaan Amsterdam, NL; Blagoveshchensk terminal, RU
      6. Gow Nippon Moon: Japan
      7. Brainport smart district (BSD)
      8. Conclusions
    4. Chapter 5: Snowfall on Piazza Castello: Stubborn dispositions and multiple publics in a (temporarily smart) Milanese square
      1. Abstract
      2. Introduction
      3. Tactical urbanism and the possibilities of space
      4. Background
      5. The pedestrianization experiment
      6. After the experiment
      7. Conclusion
    5. Chapter 6: Designing for hyperlocal: The use of locative media to augment place narratives
      1. Abstract
      2. Acknowledgments
      3. Introduction
      4. Background
      5. Contextual urban experience: Two approaches of mediated spatial storytelling
      6. Context, mediation, and the facilitation of social encounters with the past
      7. Conclusion
    6. Chapter 7: Place-based design as method of accessing memories and meanings: Historical augmentation in the harbor promenade of Lahti
      1. Abstract
      2. Introduction
      3. Understanding AR through the concepts of embodiment and emplacement
      4. Materials and methods
      5. Research setting and AR application
      6. Analysis
      7. Conclusions
    7. Chapter 8: Designing smart to revitalize a multicultural shopping street
      1. Abstract
      2. Introduction
      3. Context of study
      4. A culture-sensitive design approach
      5. Design process and resulting design
      6. Discussion and conclusions
    8. Chapter 9: Affective technologies for enchanting spaces and cultivating places
      1. Abstract
      2. Introduction
      3. Enchanted places, enchanting technologies
      4. Designing experiences for enchantment
      5. Light, darkness, and illuminated atmospheres
      6. Conclusions
    9. Chapter 10: Smart engagement for smart cities: Design patterns for digitally augmented, situated community engagement
      1. Abstract
      2. Introduction
      3. Digital technologies and community engagement
      4. Challenges in enhancing community engagement with digital technologies
      5. Designing smart engagement interfaces
      6. Design patterns for digitally augmented, situated engagement
      7. Implementing smart engagement
  9. Section B: Co-producing smart places
    1. Chapter 11: Platform urbanism and hybrid places in African cities
      1. Abstract
      2. Introduction
      3. Platform urbanism and hacking disruption
      4. Theme 1: Sociotechnical agency and the remediation of public life
      5. Theme 2: Entanglements and scale
      6. Theme 3: The hybrid city
      7. Conclusion
    2. Chapter 12: Learning lessons for avoiding the inadvertent exclusion of communities from smart city projects
      1. Abstract
      2. Acknowledgments
      3. Introduction
      4. Start-up businesses
      5. Local government
      6. Voluntary sector
      7. Designing visual communications
      8. Conclusions
    3. Chapter 13: Putting the people back into the “smart”: Developing a middle-out framework for engaging citizens
      1. Abstract
      2. Introduction
      3. Middle-out engagement for collaboration
      4. Middle-Out Engagement Framework
      5. Toward middle-out outcomes
      6. Implementing middle-out engagement
    4. Chapter 14: Digital twins of cities and evasive futures
      1. Abstract
      2. Smart cities evolution(s)
      3. Sensing and data selection
      4. Urban data, analytics, and real-time mapping
      5. Technological stacking and fusing
      6. Digital realities, realities, and finding futures
      7. CIMs for smart cities
    5. Chapter 15: The impact of peer-to-peer accommodation on place authenticity: A placemaking perspective
      1. Abstract
      2. Introduction
      3. Tourism and the sharing economy
      4. Split, Croatia
      5. Tourism and the urban ecosystem
      6. Place authenticity and localhood
      7. Diversity advantage
      8. Conclusions
    6. Chapter 16: Smart and informal? Self-organization and everyday
      1. Abstract
      2. Introduction
      3. Smart and informal
      4. Self-organization
      5. The everyday
      6. Reconceptualizing smart and informal
    7. Chapter 17: Situating urban smartness: ICTs and infrastructure in Nairobi’s informal areas
      1. Abstract
      2. Introduction
      3. Researching ICTs and urban infrastructure in the global South
      4. ICTs and infrastructure in Nairobi’s informal areas
      5. Water ATMs in Mathare
      6. The M-Maji platform in Kibera
      7. Conclusion: Situating urban smartness
    8. Chapter 18: EMTHONJENI—Public space as smart learning networks: A case study of the violence prevention through urban upgrading methodology in Cape Town
      1. Abstract
      2. Introduction: Urban space and safety
      3. Rethinking smart urbanism at the margins of informality
      4. Co-creative problem solving to address the problem: VPUU
      5. Public space as “smart” learning networks in Monwabisi Park: A case study
      6. Toward an improved quality of life in informal settlements
    9. Chapter 19: Watering India’s smart cities
      1. Abstract
      2. India's smart city agenda
      3. Water shortage in Mumbai
      4. Rainwater harvesting as a smart technology
      5. Creating and maintaining smart rainwater harvesting systems
      6. Water justice in smart places
    10. Chapter 20: Potential and shortcomings of two design-based strategies for the engagement of city stakeholders with open data
      1. Abstract
      2. Acknowledgments
      3. Aims
      4. Theoretical framework
      5. Methods
      6. Two design-based strategies for the engagement of city stakeholders with open data
      7. Discussions
      8. Conclusions
  10. Index

Product information

  • Title: Shaping Smart for Better Cities
  • Author(s): Alessandro Aurigi, Nancy Odendaal
  • Release date: November 2020
  • Publisher(s): Academic Press
  • ISBN: 9780128187449