Acknowledgements 005
Introduction: A New Urban Ideal 009
Spatialised Intelligence 011
Technology, Space and Politics 015
Chapter 1: The Advent of the Smart City, from Flow Management to Event Control 023
Defining the Smart City 024
Self-Fulfilling Fictions 030
The Sentient and Sensory City 037
Massive Quantities of Data 046
What Happens 052
Chapter 2: A Tale of Two Cities 067
Neocybernetic Temptation 069
The Cyborg-City Hypothesis 078
Spontaneous City, Collaborative City 083
The Digital Individual 091
Chapter 3: Urban Intelligence, Space and Maps 105
Augmented Reality and Geolocation 106
Towards Three-Dimensional Urbanism 110
A New Relationship to Infrastructure 119
The Stakes of Representation 124
A New Aesthetic 138
Laboratories of Public Life in the Digital Age 140
Conclusion: The Challenges of Intelligence 145
The Limits of All-Digital Solutions 146
The Necessary Diversification of Scenarios 149
Public/Private 153
From Event to History 154
Bibliography 158
Index 162
Picture Credits 167
Antoine Picon is the G Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is also researcher at the ?cole Nationale des Ponts et Chauss?es and President of the Fondation Le Corbusier. His current research focuses on contemporary issues around digital culture, architecture and the city.
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