Scaling the Smart City: The Design and Ethics of Urban Technology

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Nicole Gardner (Senior Lecturer, School of Built Environment, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)

Scaling the Smart City

The Design and Ethics of Urban Technology

Nicole Gardner (Senior Lecturer, School of Built Environment, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)

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Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
04 July 2024

Urban communities; Urban & municipal planning

Series: Smart Cities

Scaling the Smart City engages with the smart city as a problem of scale. It disentangles the smart city from its corporate and technocratic stronghold by presenting an accessible design framework that productively aligns philosophical thinking on technology with foundational technical understandings of urban technology and smart system design.

The knowledge and know-how to design and create urban technologies and smart cities are steadily moving from a niche field to a core industry competency. This book outlines a cross-scalar design framework, developed to teach smart city design to designers and engineers. It unpacks smart city initiatives and demystifies physical computing system design concepts, while complementing and mediating between critical social theory perspectives of the smart city and technically comprehensive case studies. The book’s analysis of real-world case examples and design prototypes demonstrates how design thinking and practice can better engage with the ethical implications of creating urban technologies and smart systems for society. It uses a clear, accessible, and instructive style of writing that synthesizes relevant scholarship and concepts to develop the reader’s foundational understanding of the contemporary smart city paradigm.

This book is an invaluable resource for readers in the established fields and professions of design, architecture, urban design, and city planning, as well as the emerging fields of urban technology and urban interaction design.

By: Nicole Gardner (Senior Lecturer School of Built Environment Faculty of Arts Design and Architecture University of New South Wales Sydney Australia)
Imprint: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 450g
ISBN: 9780443184529
ISBN 10: 0443184526
Series: Smart Cities
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 04 July 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Senior Lecturer Nicole Gardner works in the, School of Built Environment, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.