1st Edition

Big Data, Code and the Discrete City Shaping Public Realms

By Silvio Carta Copyright 2020
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages 58 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 58 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Big Data, Code and the Discrete City explores how digital technologies are gradually changing the way in which the public space is designed by architects, managed by policymakers and experienced by individuals. Smart city technologies are superseding the traditional human experience that has characterised the making of the public space until today. This book examines how computers see the... Read more

Part I Continuity and Discreteness





1. The Idea of Discretisation





2. Discrete Public Space





Part II The Discrete City





3. The Production of the Discrete City





4. Perception of the Discrete City





Part III The New Public Realm





5. The New Public Space – a Spatial Account





6. Built Environment, Big Data and the New Public Life

Biography

Silvio Carta is an ARB RIBA architect and Head of Art and Design, and Chair of the Design Research Group at the University of Hertfordshire. Previously, he taught at Delft University of Technology School of Architecture, University of Rotterdam and University of Cagliari (Italy). His studies have focused on digital design, digital manufacturing, urban informatics, data visualisation and computational optimisation of the design process. Silvio has published 100+ articles, infographics and reviews in journals and magazines in the field of design, urban studies and architecture, and exhibited his digital projects worldwide. He is editor-at-large of Seoul-based C3-Korea magazine, editor of Architecture Media Politics and Society (AMPS), and the curator of the international lecture series AUDITORIUM 2015–16: The Architecture of Information, Data, People and Public Space (Leuven, Belgium).