Shaping Smart for Better Cities

Shaping Smart for Better Cities powerfully demonstrates the range of theoretical and practical challenges, opportunities and success factors involved in successfully deploying digital technologies in cities, focusing on the importance of recognizing local context and multi-layered urban relationships in designing successful urban interventions. The first section, ‘Rethinking Smart (in) Places’ interrogates the smart city from a theoretical vantage point. The second part, ‘Shaping Smart Places’ examines various case studies critically. Hence the volume offers an intellectual resource that expands on the current literature, but also provides a pedagogical resource to universities as well as a reflective opportunity for practitioners. The cases allow for an examination of the practical implications of smart interventions in space, whilst the theoretical reflections enable expansion of the literature. Students are encouraged to learn from case studies and apply that learning in design. Academics will gain from the learning embedded in the documentation of the case studies in different geographic contexts, while practitioners can apply their learning to the conceptualisation of new forms of technology use.

• Demonstrates how to adapt smart urban interventions for hyper-local context in geographic parameters, spatial relationships, and socio-political characteristics
• Provides a problem-solving approach based on specific smart place examples, applicable to real-life urban management
• Offers insights from numerous case studies of smart cities interventions in real civic spaces

Early career researchers and graduate students from urban planning, geography, transport, and economics interested in smart city design. Also of interest to industry professionals and policymakers / public administrators

1. Introduction

SECTION A - RETHINKING SMART (IN) PLACES
2. Rethinking Smart in Places
3. The Augmented Participation Framework: Designing for Community Participation in Public Space
4. Developing tools for avoiding the inadvertent exclusion of communities from smart city projects
5. Affective Technology, Enchanting Spaces and Cultivating Places
6. The Software-Sorted City: Big Data & Algorithms
7. Potential and shortcomings of two design-based strategies for the engagement of city stakeholders with open data
8. Middle-Out Engagement in Emerging Countries: Developing a Collaborative City Making Framework

SECTION B – SHAPING SMART PLACES
9. Shaping Smart Places
10. Smart and Informal? The Production of Place in Barrios
11. Historical augmentation in the Harbour Promenade of Lahti: Emplaced experiences
12. Designing responsive public spaces in the era of networked urbanism
13. Experience Design for Hyperlocal: The Use of Mobile and locative Technologies to Enhance Place Narratives
14. Snowfall on the piazza. Portability and abstractions in the design of a smart square in Milan
15. Taste it! Design strategies to revitalize a multi-cultural shopping street
16. Watering India's Smart City Dreams
17. The Role of ICT's in Shaping Access to Water for People living in Informal Communities