Shaping Smart for Better Cities. Rethinking and Shaping Relationships between Urban Space and Digital Technologies. Smart Cities

Table of Contents

- Introduction (Alessandro Aurigi and Nancy Odendaal)

SECTION A
DESIGNING AND SHAPING SMART PLACES

- Designing Smart Places: towards a holistic, recombinant approach (Alessandro Aurigi)

- Responsive public spaces: five mechanisms for the design of public space in the era of networked urbanism (Martijn de Waal, Frank Suurenbroek and Ivan Nio)

- Smart Plays (Ben van Berkel, Filippo Lodi, Wael Batal)

- Snowfall on Piazza Castello. Stubborn dispositions and multiple publics in a (temporarily smart) Milanese square (Yulya Besplemennova and Andrea Pollio)

- Designing for Hyperlocal: The Use of Locative Media to Augment Place Narratives (Efstathia Kostopoulou and Ava Fatah gen Schieck)

- Place-Based Design as Method of Accessing Memories and Meanings: Historical Augmentation in the Harbor Promenade of Lahti (Aale Luusua, Henrika Pihlajaniemi, Mika Hakkarainen, Petri Honkamaa, Eveliina Juntunen & Sami Huuskonen)

- Designing smart to revitialise a multicultural shopping street (Ummu Sakiinah, Ingrid Mulder, Annemiek van Boeijen, Rudi Darson)

- Affective Technologies for Enchanting Spaces and Cultivating Places (Manuel Portela and Carlos Granell-Canut)

- Smart engagement for smart cities: Design patterns for digitally augmented, situated community engagement (Callum Parker, Martin Tomitsch, Joel Fredericks)

SECTION B
CO-PRODUCING SMART PLACES

- Platform urbanism and hybrid places in African cities (Nancy Odendaal)

- Learning lessons for avoiding the inadvertent exclusion of communities from smart city projects (Alan-Miguel Valdez, Edward Wigley, Oliver Zanetti and Gillian Rose)

- Putting the People Back into the 'Smart': Developing a Middle-Out Framework for Engaging Citizens (Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Joel Fredericks, Luke Hespanhol, Marianella Chamorro-Koc, Mar?a Jos? S?nchez Varela Barajas and Mar?a Jos? Castelazo Andr?)

- Digital Twins of Cities and Evasive Futures (Paul Cureton and Nick Dunn)

- The Impact of Peer-to-Peer Accommodation on Place Authenticity: A Placemaking Perspective (Marcus Foth, Ana Bilandzic and Mirko Guaralda)

- Smart and Informal? Self-Organisation and Everyday (Jaime Hern?ndez-Garcia and Iliana Hern?ndez-Garcia)

- Situating urban smartness: ICTs and infrastructure in Nairobi's informal areas (Prince K. Guma)

- Emthonjeni
Public space as smart learning networks: A case study of the Violence Prevention Through Urban Upgrading methodology in Cape Town (Kathryn Ewing and Michael Krause)

- Watering India's smart cities (Cat Button)

- Potential and shortcomings of two design-based strategies for the engagement of city stakeholders with open data (Luca Simeone, Nicola Morelli, Amalia De G?tzen)

Authors

Alessandro Aurigi Professor of Urban Design and Associate Dean: Research, University of Plymouth, UK. Alessandro Aurigi is Professor of Urban Design and Associate Dean: Research at the University of Plymouth, UK. He was previously Head of the School of Architecture, Design and Environment at Plymouth. He also worked at Newcastle University where he was Director (Head of Department) of Architecture, and as a lecturer at UCL (UK). His research focuses on the relationships between our increasingly digital society and the ways we conceive, design, and manage urban space, to enhance and support place quality. Alex is a member of the Peer-Review College of the AHRC, and has published widely on the topic of digital technology and urban space. Nancy Odendaal Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Nancy Odendaal is Associate Professor in City and Regional Planning at the University of Cape Town. Her research focuses on three interconnected areas of enquiry: infrastructure development, technology innovation and socio-spatial change in cities. She has published extensively on smart cities, with her research focused on the interface between new technologies and marginalised spaces. Previously, Nancy was based at the African Centre for Cities (at the University of Cape Town), where she coordinated the expansion of the Association of African Planning Schools (AAPS), and managed an Africa-wide project on curricula reform of city and regional planning education.