Kitchin Rob, Perng Sung-Yueh. Code and the City (Regions and Cities)

Routledge, 2016. - 260 p. - ISBN10: 1138922110; ISBN13: 978-1138922112.Software has become essential to the functioning of cities. It is deeply embedded into the systems and infrastructure of the built environment and is entrenched in the management and governance of urban societies. Software-enabled technologies and services enhance the ways in which we understand and plan cities. It even has an effect on how we manage urban services and utilities.Code and the City explores the extent and depth of the ways in which software mediates how people work, consume, communication, travel and play. The reach of these systems is set to become even more pervasive through efforts to create smart cities: cities that employ ICTs to underpin and drive their economy and governance. Yet, despite the roll-out of software-enabled systems across all aspects of city life, the relationship between code and the city has barely been explored from a critical social science perspective. This collection of essays seeks to fill that gap, and offers an interdisciplinary examination of the relationship between software and contemporary urbanism.This book will be of interest to those researching or studying smart cities and urban infrastructure.1 Code and the city: introduction Rob Kitchin and Sung-Yueh Perng
PART I Code, coding, infrastructure and cities 13
2 From a single line of code to an entire city: reframing the conceptual terrain of code/space 15
Rob Kitchin
3 The Internet of Urban Things
Paul Dourish
4 Interfacing urban intelligence
Shannon Mattern
5 Abstract urbanism
Matthew Fuller and Graham Harwood
6 Code traffic: code repositories, crowds and urban life
A drian Mackenzie
PART II Locative social media and mobile computing
7 Digital social interactions in the city: reflecting on location-based social networks 91
Luigina Ciolfi and Gabriela Avram
8 Feeling place in the city: strange ontologies and location-based social media
Leighton Evans
9 Curating the city: urban interfaces and locative media as experimental platforms for cultural data
Nanna Verhoeff and Clancy Wilmott
10 Moving applications: a multilayered approach to mobile computing
James Merricks White
11 Exploring urban social media: Selfiecity and On Broadway
Lev Manovich
PART III Governance, politics and knowledge
12 Digital urbanism in crises
Monika Büscher, Xaroula Kerasidou, Michael Liegl and Katrina Petersen
13 Coding alternative modes of governance: learning from experimental ‘peer-to-peer cities’ 178
Alison Powell
14 Encountering the city at hacking events
Sophia Maalsen and Sung-Yueh Perng
15 Semantic cities: coded geopolitics and the rise of the Semantic Web
Heather Ford and Mark Graham
16 Cities and context: the codification of small areas through geodemographic classification
Alex Singleton