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Title:
Intelligent infrastructure : zip cars, invisible networks, and urban transformation / edited by T.F. Tierney.
Author:
Tierney, Therese, editor.
Publication Information:
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
Call Number:
TE228.3 .I555 2016
ISBN:
9780813939483
Physical Description:
x, 262 pages ; 21 cm
Contents:
Introduction: Infrastructural intelligence : connective systems for a postcarbon city -- Part I. Soft systems. The conceptual roots of infrastructure / Mitchell Schwarzer ; Tinkering toward (a)utopia : telecommunications and transit in the twentieth-first-century city / Anthony Townsend ; Phantom tollbooth plaza / Jordan Geiger -- Part II. Mashed systems. Mobile networks as tactical transportation / T. F. Tierney with Ben Feldman, Katherine Handy, Tyron Marshall, Dinesh Perera, and Gerald Tierney ; (Driver)less is more / Bjarke Ingels and Kai-Uwe Bergmann ; Ubiquitous multimodality : a vision for urban mobility in the (near) future / Carlo Ratti, Nashid Nablan, and Christine Outram ; The future of personal urban mobility : an engineer's perspective / Sven Beiker -- Part III. Hard systems. The automobile, the city, and the new urban mobilities / Frederic Stout ; Rethinking urban utopias : a manifesto for self-supported infrastructure, technology, and territory / Mitchell Joachim ; Urban mobility in the informal city / Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner ; The paradox of urban mobility and the spatialization of technological utopia / Chamee Yang -- Conclusion: Networked urbanism and everyday mobility in the city.
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