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

Shaping Smart for Better Cities powerfully demonstrates the range of theoretical and practical challenges, opportunities and success factors involved in successfully deploying digital technologies in cities, focusing on the importance of recognizing local context and multi-layered urban relationships in designing successful urban interventions. The first section, ‘Rethinking Smart (in) Places’ interrogates the smart city from a theoretical vantage point. The second part, ‘Shaping Smart Places’ examines various case studies critically. Hence the volume offers an intellectual resource that expands on the current literature, but also provides a pedagogical resource to universities as well as a reflective opportunity for practitioners. The cases allow for an examination of the practical implications of smart interventions in space, whilst the theoretical reflections enable expansion of the literature. Students are encouraged to learn from case studies and apply that learning in design. Academics will gain from the learning embedded in the documentation of the case studies in different geographic contexts, while practitioners can apply their learning to the conceptualisation of new forms of technology use.

Demonstrates how to adapt smart urban interventions for hyper-local context in geographic parameters, spatial relationships, and socio-political characteristicsProvides a problem-solving approach based on specific smart place examples, applicable to real-life urban managementOffers insights from numerous case studies of smart cities interventions in real civic spaces

1. Introduction (Alessandro Aurigi and Nancy Odendaal)

SECTION A – DESIGNING AND SHAPING SMART PLACES

2. Designing Smart Places: towards a holistic, recombinant approach (Alessandro Aurigi)
3. 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)
4. Smart Plays (Ben van Berkel, Filippo Lodi, Wael Batal)
5. Snowfall on Piazza Castello. Stubborn dispositions and multiple publics in a (temporarily smart) Milanese square (Yulya Besplemennova and Andrea Pollio)
6. Designing for Hyperlocal: The Use of Locative Media to Augment Place Narratives (Efstathia Kostopoulou and Ava Fatah gen Schieck)
7. 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)
8. Designing smart to revitialise a multicultural shopping street (Ummu Sakiinah, Ingrid Mulder, Annemiek van Boeijen, Rudi Darson)
9. Affective Technologies for Enchanting Spaces and Cultivating Places (Manuel Portela and Carlos Granell-Canut)
10. 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

11. Platform urbanism and hybrid places in African cities (Nancy Odendaal)
12. Learning lessons for avoiding the inadvertent exclusion of communities from smart city projects (Alan-Miguel Valdez, Edward Wigley, Oliver Zanetti and Gillian Rose)
13. 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, María José Sánchez Varela Barajas and María José Castelazo André)
14. Digital Twins of Cities and Evasive Futures (Paul Cureton and Nick Dunn)
15. The Impact of Peer-to-Peer Accommodation on Place Authenticity: A Placemaking Perspective (Marcus Foth, Ana Bilandzic and Mirko Guaralda)
16. Smart and Informal? Self-Organisation and Everyday (Jaime Hernández-Garcia and Iliana Hernández-Garcia)
17. Situating urban smartness: ICTs and infrastructure in Nairobi’s informal areas (Prince K. Guma)
18. 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)
19. Watering India’s smart cities (Cat Button)
20. Potential and shortcomings of two design-based strategies for the engagement of city stakeholders with open data (Luca Simeone, Nicola Morelli, Amalia De Götzen)