Overview
- Presents the best papers from the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015
- Explores the affordances of new media technologies for empowering citizens in the process of city making
- Relates examples of bottom-up or participatory city-making practices to reflections about the changing roles of professional practitioners in the processes
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Design Practices in the Hackable City
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Changing Roles
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Theorizing the Hackable City
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michiel de Lange is an assistant professor in new media studies at Utrecht University’s Department of Media and Culture Studies. He obtained a PhD in Philosophy (2010) from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and works as a researcher and lecturer in the field of (mobile) media, urban culture, identity and play. He is the co-founder of The Mobile City, a platform for the study of new media and urbanism, and the [urban interfaces] research group at Utrecht University.
Martijn de Waal is a lector at the Lectorate of Play & Civic Media at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. He holds a PhD from the University of Groningen (2012) and is an internationally renowned scholar in the field of urban media, place making and citizen empowerment. His book ‘The City as Interface: How Digital Media are Changing the City’ has been internationally well received, and he is regularly invited as a keynote speaker at both academic and professional conferences around the world.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Hackable City
Book Subtitle: Digital Media and Collaborative City-Making in the Network Society
Editors: Michiel de Lange, Martijn de Waal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2694-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-2693-6Published: 17 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-2694-3Published: 05 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 302
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour
Topics: Communications Engineering, Networks, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction