The Hackable City: Digital Media and Collaborative City-Making in the Network Society

Front Matter ....Pages iii-xv
 Introduction—The Hacker, the City and Their Institutions: From Grassroots Urbanism to Systemic Change  (Martijn de Waal, Michiel de Lange)....Pages 1-22
Front Matter ....Pages 23-23
 Power to the People: Hacking the City with Plug-In Interfaces for Community Engagement  (Luke Hespanhol, Martin Tomitsch)....Pages 25-50
 Rapid Street Game Design: Prototyping Laboratory for Urban Change  (Viktor Bedö)....Pages 51-65
 The City as Perpetual Beta: Fostering Systemic Urban Acupuncture  (Joel Fredericks, Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Marcus Foth, Martin Tomitsch)....Pages 67-92
Front Matter ....Pages 93-93
 Transforming Cities by Designing with Communities  (Rosie Webb, Gabriela Avram, Javier Burón García, Aisling Joyce)....Pages 95-117
 Economic Resilience Through Community-Driven (Real Estate) Development in Amsterdam-Noord  (Matthijs Bouw, Despo Thoma)....Pages 119-127
 This Is Our City! Urban Communities Re-appropriating Their City  (Gabriela Avram)....Pages 129-151
 Removing Barriers for Citizen Participation to Urban Innovation  (Annika Wolff, Daniel Gooch, Jose Cavero, Umar Rashid, Gerd Kortuem)....Pages 153-168
Front Matter ....Pages 169-169
 Working in Beta: Testing Urban Experiments and Innovation Policy Within Dublin City Council  (Fiona McDermott)....Pages 171-186
 Reinventing the Rules: Emergent Gameplay for Civic Learning  (Cristina Ampatzidou)....Pages 187-203
 Data Flow in the Smart City: Open Data Versus the Commons  (Richard Beckwith, John Sherry, David Prendergast)....Pages 205-221
Front Matter ....Pages 223-223
 Hacking, Making, and Prototyping for Social Change  (Ingrid Mulder, Péter Kun)....Pages 225-238
 Unpacking the Smart City Through the Lens of the Right to the City: A Taxonomy as a Way Forward in Participatory City-Making  (Irina Anastasiu)....Pages 239-260
 A Hacking Atlas: Holistic Hacking in the Urban Theater  (Douglas Schuler)....Pages 261-282
 Of Hackers and Cities: How Selfbuilders in the Buiksloterham Are Making Their City  (Michiel de Lange)....Pages 283-298
Back Matter ....Pages 299-302