Intelligent Infrastructure: Zip Cars, Invisible Networks, And Urban Transformation

Synopsis

While Many Of Its Traditional Elements, Such As Roads And Utilities, Do Not Change, Urban Infrastructure Is Undergoing A Fascinating And Necessary Transformation In The Wake Of New Information And Communication Technologies. This Volume Brings Together Many Of The Most Important New Voices In The Fields Impacting Modern Urban Infrastructure To Explore This Revolutionary Change In The City. Increasingly, It Is Connective Systems Rather Than Built Forms That Bind A City Together. Intelligent Infrastructure Confers Upon A City Previously Unimagined Levels Of Adaptability, With Mobile Telephony Serving To Organize People And Events On The Move And In Real Time. Beginning With A Consideration Of Invisible Networks--the Sociohistorical Systems That Contribute To And Constitute Urbanity--the Essays Collected Here Examine A Variety Of Actual Tools, From Handheld Devices To Autonomous Vehicles, Within A Fully Networked Built Environment: The Smart City. This Book Argues That Knowledge Of Both The Visible And Invisible Components--information, Energy, Sustainability, Transportation, Housing, And Social Practices--are Critical To Understanding The Urban Environment. The Dynamic And Diverse Cast Of Contributors Includes Mitchell Schwarzer, Frederic Stout, Anthony Townsend, Carlo Ratti Of The Mit Senseable City Lab, Mitchell Joachim Of Terreform One, And Many Other Innovators Who Are Changing The Urban Landscape. -- Publisher's Description Introduction: Infrastructural Intelligence : Connective Systems For A Postcarbon City -- Part I. Soft Systems. The Conceptual Roots Of Infrastructure / Mitchell Schwarzer ; Tinkering Toward (a)utopia : Telecommunications And Transit In The Twentieth-first-century City / Anthony Townsend ; Phantom Tollbooth Plaza / Jordan Geiger -- Part Ii. Mashed Systems. Mobile Networks As Tactical Transportation / T. F. Tierney With Ben Feldman, Katherine Handy, Tyron Marshall, Dinesh Perera, And Gerald Tierney ; (driver)less Is More / Bjarke Ingels And Kai-uwe Bergmann ; Ubiquitous Multimodality : A Vision For Urban Mobility In The (near) Future / Carlo Ratti, Nashid Nablan, And Christine Outram ; The Future Of Personal Urban Mobility : An Engineer's Perspective / Sven Beiker -- Part Iii. Hard Systems. The Automobile, The City, And The New Urban Mobilities / Frederic Stout ; Rethinking Urban Utopias : A Manifesto For Self-supported Infrastructure, Technology, And Territory / Mitchell Joachim ; Urban Mobility In The Informal City / Alfredo Brillembourg And Hubert Klumpner ; The Paradox Of Urban Mobility And The Spatialization Of Technological Utopia / Chamee Yang -- Conclusion: Networked Urbanism And Everyday Mobility In The City. Edited By T.f. Tierney. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.