Citizen{u2019}s Right to the Digital City : Urban Interfaces, Activism, and Placemaking

"Edited by thought leaders in the fields of urban informatics and urban interaction design, this book brings together case studies and examples from around the world to discuss the role that urban interfaces, citizen action, and city making play in the quest to create and maintain not only secure and resilient, but productive, sustainable and viable urban environments. The book debates the impact of these trends on theory, policy and practice. The individual chapters are based on blind peer reviewed contributions by leading researchers working at the intersection of the social / cultural, technical / digital, and physical / spatial domains of urbanism scholarship. The book will appeal not only to researchers and students, but also to a vast number of practitioners in the private and public sector interested in accessible content that clearly and rigorously analyses the potential offered by urban interfaces, mobile technology, and location-based services in the context of engaging people with open, smart and participatory urban environments."-Back cover Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Digital Design Interventions for Creating New Presentations of Self in Public Urban Places....Pages 3-21 Narratives of Ambient Play: Camera Phone Practices in Urban Cartographies....Pages 23-35 The Role of Digital Screens in Urban Life: New Opportunities for Placemaking....Pages 37-54 Designing Media Architectural Interfaces for Interactions in Urban Spaces....Pages 55-77 Design Patterns for Urban Gardening....Pages 79-98 Front Matter....Pages 99-99 ICTs and Technical Agency: A Case Study of a Rural Brazilian Community....Pages 101-117 Police, Protests, and Policy in Rio de Janeiro—Mega-Events, Networked Culture, and the Right to the City....Pages 119-135 From the Fringes: South Africa’s Smart Township Citizens....Pages 137-159 Opening up: Towards a Sociable Smart City....Pages 161-173 Front Matter....Pages 175-175 Hybrid Participatory Budgeting: Local Democratic Practices in the Digital Era....Pages 177-197 Open Government: Transforming Data into Value-Added City Services ....Pages 199-214 Citizens’ Acceptance of U-Life Services in the Ubiquitous City Songdo....Pages 215-229 A Community Architecture Framework for Smart Cities....Pages 231-252 Back Matter....Pages 253-259