There have been numerous possible scenarios depicted on the impact of the internet on urban spaces. Considering ubiquitous/pervasive computing, mobile, wireless connectivity and the acceptance of the Internet as a non-extraordinary part of our everyday lives mean that physical urban space is augmented, and digital in itself. This poses new problems as well as opportunities to those who have to deal with it.This book explores the intersection and articulation of physical and digital environments and the ways they can extend and reshape a spirit of place. It considers this from three main perspectives: the implications for the public sphere and urban public or semi-public spaces; the implications for community regeneration and empowerment; and, the dilemmas and challenges which the augmentation of space implies for urbanists. Grounded with international real-life case studies, this is an up-to-date, interdisciplinary and holistic overview of the relationships between cities, communities and high technologies.
Author(s): Alessandro Aurigi and Fiorella De Cindio
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 390
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 12
List of Contributors......Page 14
Introduction: Augmented Urban Spaces......Page 24
Part 1 Augmented Spaces......Page 28
1 Places, Situations and Connections......Page 32
2 Framing, Locality and the Body in Augmented Public Space......Page 50
3 Mobile Networks, Urban Places and Emotional Spaces......Page 64
4 Epigraphy and the Public Library......Page 84
5 Impacts of Social Computing on the Architecture of Urban Spaces......Page 96
6 Towards Spatial Protocol: The Topologies of the Pervasive Surveillance Society......Page 116
Part 2 Augmenting Communities......Page 130
7 The City and the Two Sides of Reciprocity......Page 136
8 Social Place Identity in Hybrid Communities......Page 148
9 Interplay Between the Actual and the Virtual in the Milan Community Network Experience......Page 162
10 Enabling Communities in the Networked City: ICTs and Civic Participation Among Immigrants and Youth in Urban Canada......Page 178
11 Pioneers, Subcultures and Cooperatives: the Grassroots Augmentation of Urban Places......Page 194
12 Augmenting Communities with Knowledge Resources: The Case of the Knowledge Commons in Public Libraries......Page 208
13 City Information Architecture: A Case Study of OTIS (Opening the Information Society Project) in Sheffield, UK......Page 224
Part 3 Planning Challenges in the Augmented City......Page 238
14 Public Space in the Broadband Metropolis: Lessons from Seoul......Page 242
15 Stretching the Line into a Borderland of Potentiality: Communication Technologies Between Security Tactics and Cultural Practices......Page 258
16 (D)urban Space as the Site of Collective Actions: Towards a Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Digital City in Africa......Page 278
17 Woven Fabric: The Role of Online Professional Communities in Urban Renewal and Competitiveness......Page 296
18 The Digital Urban Plan: A New Avenue for Town and Country Planning and ICT......Page 314
19 Planning and Managing the Augmented City: ICT Planning in Medium-sized Cities in São Paulo, Brazil......Page 336
20 Epilogue: Towards Designing Augmented Places......Page 354
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