Urban Futures : Designing the Digitalised City.

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Copyright Page -- About theGuest-Editor -- Introduction: Better to Make a Good Future than Predict a Bad One -- Envisaging and Envisioning Urban Futures -- The Future Urban Condition: Much More than the 'Smart City' -- How Might Others Learn from an Established Theoretical Basis? -- Contemporary Practice Predicated on Tackling the Future -- Future Practice and Education -- Avoiding the Technology Trap -- Notes -- A Socially AttunedFuture: Memory,Geography andUrban Project: The Case of Metropolitan Barcelona -- Urbanism and Adaptable Ecologies -- Barcelona's Characteristic Urban Block -- Rivers, Canals and the City Layout -- Notes -- Resisting Arrest: The Evolution of UNStudio -- Data-Informed Design: A Call for Theory -- Heuristic Design -- The Data Tsunami -- The Need for Theory -- Notes -- Seeking anUrban Philosophy: Carlo Ratti and the Senseable City -- Sense and Senseability -- Futurecrafting -- Notes -- Perturbanism in Future Cities: Enhancing Sustainability in the Galapagos Islands through Complex Adaptive Systems -- Complex Adaptive Systems in Urban Design -- Complex Adaptive Systems and the Cycle of Adaptive Change -- Complex Adaptive Systems and Perturbanism -- Notes -- Diving Deep into Unknown Unknowns: People, Cities, Technology, Architecture and Architects -- Knowns -- Known Unknowns -- Unknown Unknowns -- Notes -- AugmentingReality: (Big-) Data-Informed Urban Design and Planning -- Data-Driven Design to Design-Driven Data -- Investigations into Augmenting Reality with Data -- Looking Ahead -- Notes -- Homes, Communitiesand Games: Constructing Social Agency in Our Urban Futures -- Games and Search Mechanisms -- Design as Search -- Gamification and End-user Agency -- Role of the Designer -- Notes -- 'Small Pieces, Loosely Joined': Practices for Super-local Participative Urbanism -- Data is a Process.

The Block as Platform -- The Participatory City -- The New Public Practice -- Complexity and Contradiction in Data -- Notes -- From Digital Citiesto Biocities: Harnessing the Power of the Digital Revolution to Reinvent the Urban Ecology Model -- Global Connections Fostering Local Green Initiatives -- Power Struggles -- Learning from Nature -- Note -- Synaesthetic Architecture: A Building Dreams -- A Techno-Cultural Beacon -- An Evolution of Materiality, Representation and Production -- Media Architecture as Virtual Public Space -- An Urban Future of Architecture and Media Arts -- Notes -- Data-Driven Urbanism: The Balance Between Spatial Intelligence and Design Craftsmanship -- Changing Horizons -- Beyond Perfect Machines -- Notes -- Urban Experiment: Taking Off on the Wind of AI -- Urban Renewal -- New Town Planning and Design -- A Soft Take-Off -- Notes -- A Perennial Practice: Designing Between Urban Landscape and Urban Network -- The Gardened City -- Parallel Computings -- Big Data and Little Plans -- Notes -- Architects Without Architecture: How Transdisciplinary Studios Reposition for 21st-Century Challenges -- The Inside Job -- The Total Design Team -- Total Design -- Notes -- From 'T' to 'π'(pi)-shaped people: Better Urban Practice through Dual Depth in Architecture and Planning Education -- Post-digital Representation and Communication -- Post-digital Designers -- Notes -- Smart Who?: Collective Intelligence Urban Design Models -- Crowd Wisdom and Systemic Design -- Circular Feedback and Co-creation -- Smarter Cities for All -- Notes -- From Another Perspective: Cyberspace: Speculative Futures of the Recent Past -- Virtual Futures -- Maverick Deviations -- Communicating Vessels and Future Cities -- Notes -- Contributors.

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