Human Smart Cities : Rethinking the Interplay between Design and Planning

Grazia Concilio

ISBN 10: 3319330225 / ISBN 13: 9783319330228

Published by Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Within the most recent discussion on smart cities and the way this vision is affecting urban changes and dynamics, this book explores the interplay between planning and design both at the level of the design and planning domains' theories and practices.Urban transformation is widely recognized as a complex phenomenon, rich in uncertainty. It is the unpredictable consequence of complex interplay between urban forces (both top-down or bottom-up), urban resources (spatial, social, economic and infrastructural as well as political or cognitive) and transformation opportunities (endogenous or exogenous).The recent attention to Urban Living Lab and Smart City initiatives is disclosinga promising bridge between the micro-scale environments, with the dynamics of such forcesand resources, and the urban governance mechanisms.This bridge is represented by those urban collaborative environments, where processes of smart service co-design take place throughdialogic interaction with and among citizens within a situated and cultural-specific frame.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Human Smart Cities : Rethinking the Interplay between Design and Planning
• Publisher: Springer, Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319330225
• ISBN 13: 9783319330228
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 160H x 20D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 632 grams

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Synopsis

Within the most recent discussion on smart cities and the way this vision is affecting urban changes and dynamics, this book explores the interplay between planning and design both at the level of the design and planning domains’ theories and practices.
Urban transformation is widely recognized as a complex phenomenon, rich in uncertainty. It is the unpredictable consequence of complex interplay between urban forces (both top-down or bottom-up), urban resources (spatial, social, economic and infrastructural as well as political or cognitive) and transformation opportunities (endogenous or exogenous).

The recent attention to Urban Living Lab and Smart City initiatives is disclosing

a promising bridge between the micro-scale environments, with the dynamics of such forces 

and resources, and the urban governance mechanisms. This bridge is represented by those urban collaborative environments, where processes of smart service co-design take place throughdialogic interaction with and among citizens within a situated and cultural-specific frame.

About the Author

Grazia Concilio has a PhD from the University of Naples, she is assistant professor in Urban Planning at Politecnico di Milano. She carried out research activity at the RWTH in Aachen (D), at the IIASA in Laxenburg (A) and at the Concordia University of Montreal, Canada. She is component of several national and international research projects, responsible for a CNR young scientist project and, coordinator of two European projects for Politecnico di Milano, namely Periphèria and My Neighbourhood. She is author of several articles and publications.

Francesca Rizzo was a researcher at the Design Department of Politecnico di Milano and is currently a researcher at University of Bologna. She has a PhD in Telematics and Information from the University of Siena. She taught Human Computer Interaction and Interaction Design at University of Siena and at Politecnico di Milano. Fields of interest: User Centred Design (UCD), user studies and usability of interactive products. She is author of many articles and worked in different European Research Projects and coordinated, for The Design department of the Politecnico di Milano, Peripheria and Life 2.0 projects.