Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City

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Alive with movement and excitement, cities transmit a rapid flow of exchange facilitated by a meshwork of infrastructure connections. In this environment, the Internet has advanced to become the prime communication medium, creating a vibrant and increasingly researched field of study in urban informatics. Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: Community Integration and Implementation brings together an international selection of 66 esteemed scholars presenting their research and development on urban technology, digital cities, locative media, and mobile and wireless applications. A truly global resource, this one-of-a-kind reference collection contains significant and timely research covering a diverse range of current issues in the urban informatics field, making it an essential addition to technology and social science collections in academic libraries that will benefit scholars and practitioners in an array of fields ranging from computer science to urban studies. Title List of Reviewers List of Contributors Table of Contents Detailed Table of Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgment About the Editor Urbane-ing the City: Examining and Refining the Assumptions Behind Urban Informatics To Connect and Flow in Seoul: Ubiquitous Technologies, Urban Infrastructure and Everyday Life in the Contemporary Korean City Creating an Analytical Lens for Understanding Digital Networks in Urban South Africa Place Making Through Participatory Planning TexTales: Creating Interactive Forums with Urban Publics An Event-Driven Community in Washington, DC: Forces That Influence Participation Moments and Modes for Triggering Civic Participation at the Urban Level Fostering Communities in Urban Multi-Cultural Neighbourhoods: Some Methodological Reflections Beyond Safety Concerns: On the Practical Applications of Urban Neighbourhood Video Cameras The Figmentum Project: Appropriating Information and Communication Technologies to Animate Our Urban Fabric Voices from Beyond: Ephemeral Histories, Locative Media and the Volatile Interface Embedding an Ecology Notion in the Social Production of Urban Space Cityware: Urban Computing to Bridge Online and Real-World Social Networks Information Places: Navigating Interfaces between Physical and Digital Space A Visual Approach to Locative Urban Information Navigation Becomes Travel Scouting: The Augmented Spaces of Car Navigation Systems QyoroView: Creating a Large-Scale Street View as User-Generated Content Virtual Cities for Simulating Smart Urban Public Spaces The Neogeography of Virtual Cities: Digital Mirrors into a Resursive World Codespaces: Community Wireless Networks and the Reconfiguration of Cities Home is Where the Hub Is? Wireless Infrastructures and the Nature of Domestic Culture in Australia Mapping the MIT Campus in Real Time Using WiFi Supporting Community with Location-Sensitive Mobile Applications From Social Butterfly to Urban Citizen: The Evolution of Mobile Phone Practice u-City: The Next Paradigm of Urban Development Urban Informatics in China: Exploring the Emergence of the Chinese City 2.0 WikiCity: Real-Time Location-Sensitive Tools for the City Citizen Science: Enabling Participatory Urbanism Extreme Informatics: Toward the De-Saturated City Urban Informatics and Social Ontology About the Contributors Index