TY - JOUR
T1 - Visions of urban informatics : from proximate futures to data-driven urbanism
AU - Barns, Sarah
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Urban informatics is positioned to offer unique insights into complex urban processes through use of big data and pervasive computing. This paper examines the rise of urban informatics as a field of expert urban knowledge, with a focus on the particular visions and epistemologies of the city embedded within the field. By exploring its emergence over the past decade, and reflecting on connections with previous eras of urban computing, the article explores questions about the kind of city that is occupied, resolved and reformed by urban informatics and associated lab-style data sciences.
AB - Urban informatics is positioned to offer unique insights into complex urban processes through use of big data and pervasive computing. This paper examines the rise of urban informatics as a field of expert urban knowledge, with a focus on the particular visions and epistemologies of the city embedded within the field. By exploring its emergence over the past decade, and reflecting on connections with previous eras of urban computing, the article explores questions about the kind of city that is occupied, resolved and reformed by urban informatics and associated lab-style data sciences.
KW - big data
KW - ubiquitous computing
KW - cities and towns
UR - http://handle.westernsydney.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:42413
UR - http://fibreculturejournal.org/wp-content/pdfs/FCJ-214SarahBarns.pdf
U2 - 10.15307/fcj.29.214.2017
DO - 10.15307/fcj.29.214.2017
M3 - Article
SN - 1449-1443
VL - 29
JO - Fibreculture Journal
JF - Fibreculture Journal
ER -