{"product_id":"code-and-the-city-9781138922112","title":"Code and the City","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoftware has become essential to the functioning of cities. It is deeply embedded into the systems and infrastructure of the built environment and is entrenched in the management and governance of urban societies. Software-enabled technologies and services enhance the ways in which we understand and plan cities. It even has an effect on how we manage urban services and utilities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eCode and the City explores the extent and depth of the ways in which software mediates how people work, consume, communication, travel and play. The reach of these systems is set to become even more pervasive through efforts to create smart cities: cities that employ ICTs to underpin and drive their economy and governance. Yet, despite the roll-out of software-enabled systems across all aspects of city life, the relationship between code and the city has barely been explored from a critical social science perspective. This collection of essays seeks to fill that gap, and offers an inter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Code and the City: Introduction \u003ci\u003eRob Kitchin and Sung-Yueh Perng\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eSection I: Code, Coding, Infrastructure, Cities\u003c\/b\u003e 2 From a Single Line of Code to an Entire City: Reframing the Conceptual Terrain of Code\/Space \u003ci\u003eRob Kitchin\u003c\/i\u003e 3 The Internet of Urban Things \u003ci\u003ePaul Dourish\u003c\/i\u003e 4 Interfacing Urban Intelligence \u003ci\u003eShannon Mattern\u003c\/i\u003e 5 Abstract Urbanism \u003ci\u003eMatthew Fuller And Graham Harwood\u003c\/i\u003e 6 Code-Traffic: Code Repositories, Crowds and Urban Life \u003ci\u003eAdrian Mackenzie\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eSection II Locative Media and Mobile Computing \u003c\/b\u003e7 Digital Social Interactions In The City: Reflecting On Location-Based Social Networks \u003ci\u003eLuigina Ciolfi And Gabriela Avram\u003c\/i\u003e 8 Feeling Place in The City: Strange Ontologies and Location-based Social Media \u003ci\u003eLeighton Evans\u003c\/i\u003e 9 Curating the City: Urban Interfaces and Locative Media as Experimental Platforms for Cultural Data \u003ci\u003eNanna Verhoeff and Clancy Wilmott\u003c\/i\u003e 10 Moving Applications: A Multilayered Approach to Mobile Computing \u003ci\u003eJames Merricks White\u003c\/i\u003e 11 Exploring Urban Social Media: Selfiecity and On Broadway \u003ci\u003eLev Manovich\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eSection III Governance, Politics, Knowledge\u003c\/b\u003e 12 Digital Urbanism in Crises \u003ci\u003eMonika Büscher, Xaroula Kerasidou, Michael Liegl and Katrina Petersen \u003c\/i\u003e13 Coding Alternative Modes of Governance: Learning From Experimental ‘Peer to Peer Cities’ \u003ci\u003eAlison Powell\u003c\/i\u003e 14 Encountering the City at Hacking Events \u003ci\u003eSophia Maalsen and Sung-Yueh Perng \u003c\/i\u003e15 Semantic Cities: Coded Geopolitics and Rise of the Semantic Web \u003ci\u003eHeather Ford and Mark Graham\u003c\/i\u003e 16 Cities and Context: The Codification of Small Areas Through Geodemographic Classification \u003ci\u003eAlex Singleton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577860297047,"sku":"9781138922112","price":51.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138922112.jpg?v=1746096968","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/code-and-the-city-9781138922112","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}