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The Street As Platform: How Digital Dynamics Shape the Physical City
Author(s) -
Hill Dan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1927
Subject(s) - drone , agency (philosophy) , officer , silence , chief executive officer , urbanism , marshalling , engineering , architectural engineering , sociology , aeronautics , architecture , management , political science , computer science , aesthetics , visual arts , law , art , social science , genetics , economics , biology , programming language
What might be the long‐term ramifications of the smart city and big‐data‐driven algorithms on physical urban space? Designer and urbanist Dan Hill , Executive Director and Chief Design Officer of the UK innovation agency Future Cities Catapult, fast‐forwards to 2050, taking the opportunity to imagine the physical reality of ‘the street’ in an age of eerie silence, drones and lush foliage.