City Sense : Shaping Our Environment with Real-Time Data

Lucas Capelli

ISBN 10: 8415391293 / ISBN 13: 9788415391296

Published by Actar D, 2013

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Neu Neuware, Importqualität, auf Lager - This publication compiles the winning and the finalist entries of the City Sense competition, organized by the Institute of Advanced Architecture. The competition was open to architects, engineers, planners, designers and artists who wanted to contribute to progress in making the world more habitable by developing proposals capable of responding to emerging challenges in areas such as ecology, information technology, architecture, and urban planning, with the purpose of balancing the possible impact of real-time data collection on sensor-driven cities. The competition jury, which was composed of architects, experts from a wide range of fields and directors of some of the world's foremost architecture schools, were looking for outstanding proposals of any scale, for any city in the world. The book presents a selection of the best projects on Smart Cities, Eco Neighbourhoods, Self-Sufficient Buildings, Intelligent Homes and other proposals which examine the phenomena of sensor-driven cities and intelligent behavioural systems.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: City Sense : Shaping Our Environment with Real-Time Data
• Publisher: Actar D
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8415391293
• ISBN 13: 9788415391296
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Neu
• Weight: 497 grams

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Synopsis

This publication compiles the winning and the finalist entries of the City Sense competition, organized by the Institute of Advanced Architecture. The competition was open to architects, engineers, planners, designers and artists who wanted to contribute to progress in making the world more habitable by developing proposals capable of responding to emerging challenges in areas such as ecology, information technology, architecture, and urban planning, with the purpose of balancing the possible impact of real-time data collection on sensor-driven cities. The competition jury, which was composed of architects, experts from a wide range of fields and directors of some of the world's foremost architecture schools, were looking for outstanding proposals of any scale, for any city in the world. The book presents a selection of the best projects on Smart Cities, Eco Neighbourhoods, Self-Sufficient Buildings, Intelligent Homes and other proposals which examine the phenomena of sensor-driven cities and intelligent behavioural systems.

From the Back Cover

Envisaging the habitat of the 21st-century city