Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time CityFoth, Marcus Alive with movement and excitement, cities transmit a rapid flow of exchange facilitated by a meshwork of infrastructure connections. In this environment, the Internet has advanced to become the prime communication medium, creating a vibrant and increasingly researched field of study in urban informatics. The Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City brings together an international selection of 66 esteemed scholars presenting their research and development on urban technology, digital cities, locative media, and mobile and wireless applications. A truly global resource, this one-of-a-kind reference collection contains significant and timely research covering a diverse range of current issues in the urban informatics field, making it an essential addition to technology and social science collections in academic libraries that will benefit scholars and practitioners in an array of fields ranging from computer science to urban studies. |
Contents
Examining and Refining the Assumptions Behind Urban Informatics | 1 |
Ubiquitous Technologies Urban Infrastructure and Everyday Life in the Contemporary Korean City | 21 |
Creating an Analytical Lens for Understanding Digital Networks in Urban South Africa | 37 |
Place Making Through Participatory Planning | 55 |
Creating Interactive Forums with Urban Publics | 68 |
Forces That Influence Participation | 87 |
Moments and Modes for Triggering Civic Participation at the Urban Level | 97 |
Some Methodological Reflections | 115 |
Virtual Cities for Simulating Smart Urban Public Spaces | 257 |
Digital Mirrors into a Resursive World | 270 |
Community Wireless Networks and the Reconfiguration of Cities | 292 |
Home is Where the Hub Is? Wireless Infrastructures and the Nature of Domestic Culture in Australia | 310 |
Mapping the MIT Campus in Real Time Using WiFi | 326 |
Supporting Community with LocationSensitive Mobile Applications | 339 |
The Evolution of Mobile Phone Practice | 353 |
The Next Paradigm of Urban Development | 367 |
On the Practical Applications of Urban Neighbourhood Video Cameras | 131 |
Appropriating Information and Communication Technologies to Animate Our Urban Fabric | 144 |
Ephemeral Histories Locative Media and the Volatile Interface | 158 |
Embedding an Ecology Notion in the Social Production of Urban Space | 179 |
Urban Computing to Bridge Online and RealWorld Social Networks | 196 |
Navigating Interfaces between Physical and Digital Space | 206 |
A Visual Approach to Locative Urban Information | 219 |
The Augmented Spaces of Car Navigation Systems | 230 |
Creating a LargeScale Street View as UserGenerated Content | 244 |
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