Download PDF->A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences Writen By Shannon Mattern

A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences

By : Shannon Mattern

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A bold reassessment of smart cities that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computersComputational models of urbanism--smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration--promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit our understanding of what we can know about a city. A City Is Not a Computer reveals how cities encompass myriad forms of local and indigenous intelligences and knowledge institutions, arguing that these resources are a vital supplement and corrective to increasingly prevalent algorithmic models.Shannon Mattern begins by examining the ethical and ontological implications of urban technologies and computational models, discussing how they shape and in many cases profoundly limit our engagement with cities. She looks at the methods and underlying assumptions of data-driven urbanism, and demonstrates how the city-as-computer metaphor, which undergirds much of today's urban policy and

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Author : Shannon Mattern

Pages : 200 pages

Publisher : Princeton University Press

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ISBN-10 : 0691208050

ISBN-13 : 9780691208053

 
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