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Planning and knowledge : how new forms of technocracy are shaping contemporary cities
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ISBN: 9781447345244 9781447345275 9781447345282 9781447345251 144734524X 1447345258 1447345630 Year: 2019 Publisher: Bristol: Policy press,

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This book uses an international perspective to look at the sources of conflict and cooperation between the different landscapes of knowledge driving contemporary urban change, and the rise of new technocracy in urban governance.


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Le nouveau génie urbain
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ISSN: 22591915 ISBN: 9782364051928 2364051924 Year: 2020 Publisher: Limoges: FYP éditions,

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Reconfigurés par le processus d'hyper industrialisation, les villes et les territoires tentent de répondre aux défis presque inconcevables que constitue l'Anthropocène en se mettant en réseau. Mais les smart cities, généralement présentées comme solution à tous les problèmes urbains, s'imposent sans concertation citoyenne, et leurs promoteurs font de l'espace public un marché privé au détriment de l'intérêt collectif des localités qu'ils disruptent. Cela affecte les conditions de l'aménagement du territoire, de la gestion et des services, tout autant que l'économie urbaine et les politiques locales. Cet ouvrage analyse le problème crucial de la restitution de la souveraineté numérique aux individus et aux puissances publiques face à la montée en puissance des plateformes digitales (GAFAM) et propose une description des profonds changements causés par un déploiement immature des nouvelles technologies digitales.


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Communicating the city : meanings, practices, interactions
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ISBN: 9781433130984 143313098X 9781433130977 1433130971 9781453919026 9781433137518 9781433137525 1433137518 1433137526 1453919023 Year: 2017 Volume: 4 Publisher: New York, N.Y.: Lang,

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How human meanings, practices and interactions produce and are produced by urban space is the focus of this timely and exciting addition to the study of urban communication. Challenging notions of the ‘urban’ as physically, economically or technologically determined, this book explores key intersections of discourse, materiality, technology, mobility, identity and inequality in acts of communication across urban and urbanizing contexts. From leisure and media consumption among Chinese migrant workers in a Guangdong village to the diverse networks and communication infrastructures of global cities like London and Los Angeles, this collection combines a range of perspectives to ask fundamental questions about the significance and status of cities in times of intensified mediation and connectivity. With case studies from Italy, Britain, Ireland, Russia, the United States and China, this international collection demonstrates that both empirical and critical knowledge on the relationship between communication and urban life has become vital across the humanities and social sciences.Communicating the City will be essential reading for all scholars and students who desire to gain an in-depth understanding of the multiple roles that media and communication have in lived experiences of the city

Inventing future cities
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ISBN: 0521367840 9780521367844 9780521233651 9780511597237 0521233658 9780262038959 0262038951 9780262349895 0262349892 9780262548656 9780262349901 0262548658 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press,

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We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like organisms than machines. Neither the laws of economics nor the laws of mechanics apply; cities are the product of countless individual and collective decisions that do not conform to any grand plan. They are the product of our inventions; they evolve. In Inventing Future Cities, Michael Batty explores what we need to understand about cities in order to invent their future. Batty outlines certain themes--principles--that apply to all cities. He investigates not the invention of artifacts but inventive processes. Today form is becoming ever more divorced from function; information networks now shape the traditional functions of cities as places of exchange and innovation. By the end of this century, most of the world's population will live in cities, large or small, sometimes contiguous, and always connected; in an urbanized world, it will be increasingly difficult to define a city by its physical boundaries. Batty discusses the coming great transition from a world with few cities to a world of all cities; argues that future cities will be defined as clusters in a hierarchy; describes the future "high-frequency," real-time streaming city; considers urban sprawl and urban renewal; and maps the waves of technological change, which grow ever more intense and lead to continuous innovation--an unending process of creative destruction out of which future cities will emerge.

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