FCJ-214 Visions of Urban Informatics: From Proximate Futures to Data-Driven Urbanism

Urban informatics is positioned to offer unique insights into complex urban processes through use of big data and pervasive computing. This paper examines the rise of urban informatics as a field of expert urban knowledge, with a focus on the particular visions and epistemologies of the city embedde...

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Main Author: Sarah Barns
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Humanities Press 2017-06-01
Series:Fibreculture Journal
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Online Access:http://twentynine.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-214-visions-of-urban-informatics-from-proximate-futures-to-data-driven-urbanism/
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Summary:Urban informatics is positioned to offer unique insights into complex urban processes through use of big data and pervasive computing. This paper examines the rise of urban informatics as a field of expert urban knowledge, with a focus on the particular visions and epistemologies of the city embedded within the field. By exploring its emergence over the past decade, and reflecting on connections with previous eras of urban computing, the article explores questions about the kind of city that is occupied, resolved and reformed by urban informatics and associated lab-style data sciences.
ISSN:1449-1443
1449-1443