Introduction
- Introduction
- Drone Terms and the Hover Space
- Drone’s Eye
- Applications
- Mapping Drone Futures
Chapter 1 – Drone Aesthetics and Hover Space
- Introduction
- Hover Space
- Vertical Aesthetics
- A wave of Verticals
Chapter 2 – Drone Mapping and AI
- Drone Mapping: Stacking, Fusing
- Reality Capture and Voids
- FPV/VR/AR
- Drone AI
Chapter 3 - Urban Air Mobility
- Urban Air Mobility
- Drone Delivery
- Speculative Innovation
- VTOL
- Drone and Skyports
Chapter 4 – Digital Twins, Smart Cities and Drones
- People in the Digital City
- Technological Stacking and Fusing
- City Digital Twins and Responsive UAS
- CIMs for Smart Cities
Conclusion
- Drones, Smart Cities and Urban Resilience
- Climatic Breakdown
- Drone Futuring and a Future History of Drones
- Drone Futures (Off-world)
Biography
Paul Cureton is a drone pilot and Senior Lecturer in Design at ImaginationLancaster and member of the Data Science Institute, Lancaster University, UK. His research interest revolves around the agency and expression of futures and methods in landscape and architecture in the built environment. This research interest has manifested itself in the exploration of the power of urban visions and speculative futures, the history and future of vertical urbanism through drones and the use of 3D mapping, geo-design and digital twins for urban design and planning. His recent publications include the monograph Strategies for Landscape Representation: Digital and Analogue Techniques (2016). He is co-author, with Nick Dunn, of Future Cities: A Visual Guide (2020).
