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Intelligent Infrastructure: Zip Cars, Invisible Networks, and Urban Transformation
T. F. . Ed(S): Tierney
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Description for Intelligent Infrastructure: Zip Cars, Invisible Networks, and Urban Transformation
paperback. Urban infrastructure is undergoing a fascinating and necessary transformation in the wake of new information and communication technologies. This volume brings together many of the most important new voices in the fields impacting modern urban infrastructure to explore this revolutionary change in the city. Editor(s): Tierney, T. F. Num Pages: 256 pages, 33 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMVD; JFSG; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
While many of its traditional elements, such as roads and utilities, do not change, urban infrastructure is undergoing a fascinating and necessary transformation in the wake of new information and communication technologies. This volume brings together many of the most important new voices in the fields impacting modern urban infrastructure to explore this revolutionary change in the city.
Increasingly, it is connective systems rather than built forms that bind a city together. Intelligent infrastructure confers upon a city previously unimagined levels of adaptability, with mobile telephony serving to organize people and events on the move and in real time. ... Read more
While many of its traditional elements, such as roads and utilities, do not change, urban infrastructure is undergoing a fascinating and necessary transformation in the wake of new information and communication technologies. This volume brings together many of the most important new voices in the fields impacting modern urban infrastructure to explore this revolutionary change in the city.
Increasingly, it is connective systems rather than built forms that bind a city together. Intelligent infrastructure confers upon a city previously unimagined levels of adaptability, with mobile telephony serving to organize people and events on the move and in real time. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813939483
SKU
V9780813939483
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About T. F. . Ed(S): Tierney
T. F. Tierney is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Director of the URL: Urban Research Lab, and author of The Public Space of Social Media: Connected Cultures of the Network Society.
Reviews for Intelligent Infrastructure: Zip Cars, Invisible Networks, and Urban Transformation
Intelligent Infrastructure is an excellent contribution to the field of urban studies and related areas of debate. The collected essays carry forward a set of ideas both inspired and articulated by William Mitchell on how a post-carbon landscape could reshape urban transportation practices. Thus, the aims are unabashedly utopian, but in ways that demand our attention and nourish contemporary discussions. ... Read more