Urban Operating Systems Producing the Computational City

• Main Author: Luque-Ayala, Andrés (auth)
• Other Authors: Marvin, Simon (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2020
• Series: Infrastructures
• Subjects: Urban & municipal planning; Machine learning; Human-computer interaction; Computation; logic; computational; smart cities; digital urbanism; platform urbanism; rationalism; rational calculation; transactional decision making; urban studies; urbanization; operating systems; infrastructure; operationalization; datafication; sensing; mapping; prediction; circulation; digital resistance; data-driven governance; urban sensing; civic hacking
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

A new wave of enthusiasm for smart cities, urban data, and the Internet of Things has created the impression that computation can solve almost any urban problem. Subjecting this claim to critical scrutiny, in this book, Andrés Luque-Ayala and Simon Marvin examine the cultural, historical, and conte...