Big Data, Code and the Discrete City - Shaping Public Realms

Big Data, Code and the Discrete City explores how digital technologies is gradually changing the way in which the public space is designed, managed , and experienced. This book examines how computers see the public space and the effect of digital technologies on the human experience in public spaces.

List of contents

Part I Continuity and Discreteness

1. The Idea of Discretisation

2. Discrete Public Space

Part II The Discrete City

3. The Production of the Discrete City

4. Perception of the Discrete City

Part III The New Public Realm

5. The New Public Space – a Spatial Account

6. Built Environment, Big Data and the New Public Life

About the author

Silvio Carta is an ARB RIBA architect and Head of Art and Design, and Chair of the Design Research Group at the University of Hertfordshire. Previously, he taught at Delft University of Technology School of Architecture, University of Rotterdam and University of Cagliari (Italy). His studies have focused on digital design, digital manufacturing, urban informatics, data visualisation and computational optimisation of the design process. Silvio has published 100+ articles, infographics and reviews in journals and magazines in the field of design, urban studies and architecture, and exhibited his digital projects worldwide. He is editor-at-large of Seoul-based C3-Korea magazine, editor of Architecture Media Politics and Society (AMPS), and the curator of the international lecture series AUDITORIUM 2015–16: The Architecture of Information, Data, People and Public Space (Leuven, Belgium).

Summary

Big Data, Code and the Discrete City explores how digital technologies is gradually changing the way in which the public space is designed, managed , and experienced. This book examines how computers see the public space and the effect of digital technologies on the human experience in public spaces.

Product details

• Authors: Silvio Carta, Silvio (University of Hertfordshire Carta, Carta Silvio
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780367727468
• ISBN: 978-0-367-72746-8
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, COMPUTERS / Information Technology, COMPUTERS / Programming / General, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Information technology: general issues, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Applied computing, City and town planning: architectural aspects