Description:
Scaling the Smart City engages with the smart city as a problem of scale. It disentangles the smart city from its corporate and technocratic stronghold by presenting an accessible design framework that productively aligns philosophical thinking on technology with foundational technical understandings of urban technology and smart system design.
The knowledge and know-how to design and create urban technologies and smart cities are steadily moving from a niche field to a core industry competency. This book outlines a cross-scalar design framework, developed to teach smart city design to designers and engineers. It unpacks smart city initiatives and demystifies physical computing system design concepts, while complementing and mediating between critical social theory perspectives of the smart city and technically comprehensive case studies. The book's analysis of real-world case examples and design prototypes demonstrates how design thinking and practice can better engage with the ethical implications of creating urban technologies and smart systems for society. It uses a clear, accessible, and instructive style of writing that synthesizes relevant scholarship and concepts to develop the reader's foundational understanding of the contemporary smart city paradigm. This book is an invaluable resource for readers in the established fields and professions of design, architecture, urban design, and city planning, as well as the emerging fields of urban technology and urban interaction design.Brief description: Dr Nicole Gardner is a Senior Lecturer, Faculty Research Fellow, and Education Coordinator in the School of Built Environment, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture (ADA) at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She is an Australian Registered Architect (NSW 7921) with over twelve years of project experience in Adelaide, London, and Sydney. She has co-authored 3 book publications, numerous journal articles and over 35 conference papers that explore the roles of digital technologies and computational systems in design practice. Nicole is an active member of the global architectural computing community, a regular peer reviewer for the International Journal of Architectural Computing and proceedings co-editor for the Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) 2022 conference. Nicole has won two Australian Commonwealth grants for collaborative projects on design technology innovation in architecture and urban design and was awarded a UNSW Research Fellowship in 2021.