Chapter 14: Digital twins of cities and evasive futures
Paul Cureton; Nick Dunn Imagination Lancaster, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Abstract
New forms of urban governance are emerging with the onset of digital twins and a changing relationship between digital cities and designers. (Digital twins were developed by NASA for technology roadmaps and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for computational simulation of material complexity and failures of systems on aerospace vehicles. Digital twins refer to digital replicas of existing and proposed assets to improve management, virtualize testing and maintenance, and maximize efficiency gains. The term was coined by Michael Grieves in 2001. (Michael Grieves ...
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