Data and the City

ISBN-13: 9781138222625 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 230 str.

Rob Kitchin; Tracey P. Lauriault; Gavin McArdle

Opis

There is a long history of governments, businesses, science and citizens producing and utilising data in order to monitor, regulate, profit from, and make sense of the urban world.　 Recently, we have entered the age of big data, and now many aspects of everyday life are being captured as data, mediated through data-driven technologies, normalized in infrastructures, and augmented with visualization techniques and dashboards. This book, the companion volume to 2016's Code and the City, offers the first critical reflection on the relationship between data, data practices and the city, and how we come to know and understand cities through data. It will be crucial reading for those who wish to understand and conceptualize urban big data, data-driven urbanism, and the development of smart cities.

O autorze

Rob Kitchin is Professor and European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Investigator atMaynoothUniversity, Ireland. He is also (co)Principal Investigator of the Programmable City project, the Building City Dashboards project, the All-Island Research Observatory (AIRO) and the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). Tracey P. Lauriault is Assistant Professor of Critical Media and Big Data in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University, Canada. She is also Research Associate with the Programmable City project at Maynooth University, Ireland, and the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre at Carleton University. Gavin McArdle is Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland. He is also Research Associate with the National Centre for Geocomputation (NCG) and the Programmable City project at Maynooth University, Ireland.