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Scaling the smart city : the design and ethics of urban technology /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gardner, Nicole (Author)
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier, [2024]
Series:Smart cities series
Subjects:
Smart cities.
Villes intelligentes.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Scaling the Smart City: The Design and Ethics of Urban Technology
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I: Smart thinking
  • Chapter 1: Scaling the smart city
  • 1.1. Introduction: The smart city as a scale-making process
  • 1.2. The global, grand, and urban scales of the smart city
  • 1.3. The technological scales of the smart city
  • 1.4. The operational scales of the smart city
  • 1.5. The actually existing scales of the smart city
  • 1.6. (re)scaling the smart city
  • References
  • Chapter 2: Ethics and the smart city
  • 2.1. The smart city's ethical turn
  • 2.2. Smart city ethics
  • 2.3. Smart city harms
  • 2.4. Ethics by design
  • 2.5. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Designing and prototyping smarter urban spaces
  • 3.1. Defining urban technology
  • 3.2. Designing urban technology
  • 3.3. Interdisciplinary and integrated urban technology design
  • 3.4. Physical computing
  • 3.5. The Ubiquitous Cities design studio
  • 3.6. Problem definition framework
  • 3.7. Urban technology prototyping
  • 3.8. Conclusion
  • References
  • Part II: Smart design practice
  • Chapter 4: Smart design for urban activation and placemaking
  • 4.1. How places are made
  • 4.2. How places are networked
  • 4.3. Digitally mediated placemaking
  • 4.4. Smart placemaking
  • 4.5. Smart urban amenitization
  • 4.6. Smart urban activation
  • 4.7. Smart urban safety and security
  • 4.8. Design reflections and ethical dimensions
  • 4.9. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Smart design for socially engaging environments
  • 5.1. Socially engaging urban environments
  • 5.2. Social cohesion and social capital
  • 5.3. Mobilizing social capital in the smart city
  • 5.4. Social encounters, inattention, and diversion
  • 5.5. Proxemics and interactive spaces
  • 5.6. Smart social engagement through play
  • 5.7. Design reflections and ethical dimensions
  • 5.8. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 6: Smart design for sustainable behaviors
  • 6.1. Smart sustainability
  • 6.2. Designing sustainable transitions
  • 6.3. Nudges and choice architecture
  • 6.4. Persuasive technologies
  • 6.5. Design reflections and ethical dimensions
  • 6.6. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 7: Smart design for cultural heritage
  • 7.1. Smart cultural heritage
  • 7.2. Mobile cultural heritage interpretation
  • 7.3. Situated cultural heritage interpretation
  • 7.4. Design reflections and ethical dimensions
  • 7.5. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 8: Smart futures: Responsive and responsible design
  • 8.1. Responsive design
  • 8.2. Responsible design
  • 8.3. The rescaled smart city
  • References
  • Index