A few weeks ago on Spark, contributor Jonathan Gifford brought us inside the Cognitive Cities Conference in Berlin. One of the key people he met there was Adam Greenfield. Adam is founder and managing director of the urban-systems design practice Urbanscale and he thinks a lot about the future of the networked city, something he’s called urban computing.
http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2011/04/full-interview-adam-greenfield-on-urban-computing/
Over the past several years, we’ve watched as a very wide variety of objects and surfaces familiar from everyday life have been reimagined as networked information-gathering, -processing, -storage and -display resources. Why should cities be any different?
What happens to urban form and metropolitan experience under such circumstances? What are the implications for us, as designers, consumers and as citizens?
http://2009.dconstruct.org/schedule/adamgreenfield/
Adam Greenfield lives in a city and thinks you probably do, too.
Part 2 of the conversation with Adam Greenfield. This conversation was recorded the day after Barack Obama won the US Presidential election.
Thanks to AG for being so generous with his time and for Medialab-Prado for letting us use their office.
From http://cataspanglish.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/adam-greenfield-human-again/
City planner Jeff Speck says walking will remain a choice in most American cities for years to come, but that it’s important to incentivize pedestrians. In his book, Walkable City, Speck says urban walks have to be useful, safe, comfortable and interesting.
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/17/165239291/what-makes-a-city-walkable-and-why-it-matters
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