Architecture and the Smart City

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
Biographies
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: our brave new world
	Defining smart?
	Question/ambitions
	Histories and futures
	Agency and control
	Materiality and spaces
	Networks and nodes
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Part I: Histories and futures
	2. Frictionless futures: the vision of smartness and the occlusion of alternatives
		The promise of being smart
		Diagrammatic logic and “architectures of vapour”
		Grimeless and glitch-free worlds
		Preferable futures and the absence of people
		Creative grit in the smart city dream machine
		Notes
		References
	3. Is the city becoming computable?
		The birth of urban analysis
		Cybernetics and the city
		Dawn of the smart city
		Smart and computable cities
		Notes
		References
	4. The answer is “smart” – but what was the question? About some properties of utopian conceptualization
		Terms
		Actualization
		Discourse
		Assumptions
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	5. The trouble with capitalist utopia: a totalizing scheme of subsumption and planetary urbanization
		Traditions of the utopian imaginary
		Globalization and utopia
		Network fever
		Smart cities
		Superstudio
		“Black hole capitalism”
		Notes
		Bibliography
	6. The metaphor of the city as a thinking machine: a complicated relationship and its backstory
		Introduction
		The city as amachine
		The city as aliving machine
		The city as athinking machine
		Intelligent systems
		Fleeting clouds
		Notes
		References
Part II: Agency and control
	7. Hyperwwwork: is Alexa our new chief happiness officer? IoT and the logics of soft-production
		From machine to mocha: learning from Superstudio
		Harder, better, faster, worker
		Twelve ideal offices
		The architecture of soft-production
		Notes
		References
	8. Soft sibylations: GPS navigation as urban speculation
		Introduction
		Technoablation
		Cyberaffordance
		“Optimizing” urban movement
		Notes
		References
	9. Intelligence and armament
		The first age of intelligent cities
		The second age of intelligent cities
		The third age of intelligent cities
		The fourth age of intelligent cities
		Notes
	10. The right to the (smart) city, participation and open data
		Introduction
		The promise of asmart city
		Participation in the smart city
		Open data in the smart city
		Discussion: the democratic deficit of open data
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Acknowledgements
		References
	11. Scenarios of interactive citizenship
		Introduction
		Smart world
		Scenarios of plug-in, cyborg, and sensing citizens
		Culture and climate change: scenarios
		Scenarios as infrastructures of interactive citizenship
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
Part III: Materialities and spaces
	12. The IdIoT in the smart home
		‘Smartness’: from industrial applications towards the domestic space
		Notes
		References
	13. Five strategies of socially smart cities
		Introduction
		Smart social urbanism
		Smart housing and social justice
		Triple bottom line accounting for reversing corporate capture of cities
		Triple bottom line accounting to counter corporate capture
		Smart citizenship
		Nature- and people-based infrastructure is smart
		So what makes the city smart?
		Note
	14. Politics of sensing and listening
		Introduction
		The whys, whats, and hows of sound mapping
		Sound mapping– six areas of contention
		The authority of sensing
		The politics of metrics and thresholds
		The politics of display
		Surveillance and accountability
		Sonic commons and the right to emit
		Interventions in the soundscape
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	15. Recoupling soft and hard: engaging data as an immaterial practice
		Introduction
		Software-embedded design
		Data as an material entity
		Towards critical computational literacy
		Towards new methods
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
	16. Moving in the metropolis: smart city solutions and the urban everyday experience
		Introduction
		Smart urban aesthetics?
		The experiential effects of smart city solutions
		Technology-induced mobility and the continuity of urban experiences
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
Part IV: Networks and nodes
	17. Standing out in a crowd: big data to produce new forms of publicness
		New production of space
		Standardisation vs individual: n=all
		Individual data
		Discussion
		References
	18. Operationalizing smartness: from social bridges to an urbanism of aspirations, affordances and capabilities
		The operationalization of social knowledge
		What is computational social science?
		The urban shift
		Searching for innovation, from social learning to social bridges
		The problem of agency
		Towards atransdisciplinary model of agency
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
	19. New sensorial vehicles: navigating critical understandings of autonomous futures
		Intentional capture, asensibility primer
		What the car did—and what it might do
		Three point turn
		Notes
		References
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