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Soft City Sensing

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This book presents a human-centred approach to data-driven urbanism, with case studies illustrating the integration of public values and everyday urban life into planning and policy making.
  • 01 August 2027
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This book presents a human-centred approach to data-driven urbanism, with case studies illustrating the integration of public values and everyday urban life into planning and policy making.
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Price: $134.95
Pages: 304
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Publication Date: 01 August 2027
ISBN: 9781529254204
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Urban communities / city life, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Data science and analysis, Impact of science and technology on society, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Artificial intelligence (AI), City and town planning: architectural aspects
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Introduction: Stray Publics! Stray Data!

Part 1: Ontology: The Soft City and Its Problems

1. More-than-Physical Cities

2. The Digital City

Part 2: Epistemology: Ways of Knowing the Soft City

3. Domesticated Urban Data

4. A New Pre-history for a New Home

5. Enter ‘Machine Anthropology’

Part 3: Practice: Four Areas of Investigation

6. Social Infrastructure

7. Belonging and Memory

8. Aesthetics and Ambience

9. What Does SCS Do?

Part 4: Trouble: What to Be Careful Of?

10. Surveillance vs. Democracy

11. Power, Bias and Algorithmic Performativity

12 Unintended Consequences

13. SCS Beyond the Global North

Outro: Sensing with Care!

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