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The City of Tomorrow: Sensors, Networks, Hackers, and the Future of Urban Life (The Future Series) Hardcover – Illustrated, June 28, 2016

by Carlo Ratti (Author), Matthew Claudel (Author)
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An internationally renowned architect, urban planner, and scholar describes the major technological forces driving the future of cities

Since cities emerged ten thousand years ago, they have become one of the most impressive artifacts of humanity. But their evolution has been anything but linear—cities have gone through moments of radical change, turning points that redefine their very essence. In this book, a renowned architect and urban planner who studies the intersection of cities and technology argues that we are in such a moment.
 
The authors explain some of the forces behind urban change and offer new visions of the many possibilities for tomorrow’s city. Pervasive digital systems that layer our cities are transforming urban life. The authors provide a front-row seat to this change. Their work at the MIT Senseable City Laboratory allows experimentation and implementation of a variety of urban initiatives and concepts, from assistive condition-monitoring bicycles to trash with embedded tracking sensors, from mobility to energy, from participation to production. They call for a new approach to envisioning cities: futurecraft, a symbiotic development of urban ideas by designers and the public. With such participation, we can collectively imagine, examine, choose, and shape the most desirable future of our cities.
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    The Future Series
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  3. Language
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    Yale University Press
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    June 28, 2016
  6. Dimensions
    7 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0300204809
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0300204803
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"A call to arms on the need to harness the power of both designers and citizens to create our cities of tomorrow."—Metropolis

"Written with clarity. . . . In times of disillusion with technology and its promises, it’s important to remember that we are responsible for setting the rules on how it will be employed. We must reclaim an active, vigilant role to prevent its abuse, all the while we continue to imagine ways of putting it to work for the human cause. In that sense, we may need at least a bit of The City of Tomorrow’s optimism."—Antonio Vazquez Brust, EPB: Urban Anaytics and City Science

"This is different. And it is brilliant. Ratti and Claudel give us a distinctive path to think through technical futures, far removed from the typical exaggerated versions of the present. They start with a fact: we are all enmeshed in distributed sensing ecosystems, and the more complex and intractable those systems, the more technical innovations we can think up. Thus the messy city, not the perfect lab, is ground zero."—Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Expulsions

"Ratti and Claudel provide remarkable insights into the city of tomorrow. A book that everyone who is interested in the future—and that is all of us—should explore."—Michael Batty, University College London

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Carlo Ratti and Matthew Claudel carry out research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Senseable City Laboratory, investigating the intersection of technology and the built environment.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yale University Press; Illustrated edition (June 28, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0300204809
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0300204803
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
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echeverrimontes
5.0 out of 5 stars The city of tomorrow
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2020
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Eye opening discussion on the future of the city which generate space for the collective to raise ideas in the hybrid reality of the grounded and the virtual.
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Ross WF.
4.0 out of 5 stars A good read.
Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2020
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Quite a fun book with some very interesting concepts of where cities might end up in the future.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2016
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exactly what i need
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ArchitecturePhilosophy
3.0 out of 5 stars Basic Introduction to contemporary discourse on digital technologies in architecture and cities.
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2018
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A good introduction with somewhat interesting material, but not very in-depth. There was nothing especially surprising, unless you're new to the topics.
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Robert E. Kearney
4.0 out of 5 stars Ok, but nothing truly new.
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2016
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I was somewhat disappointed, because I expected more discussion concerning innovations and their possible and potential impact upon the "future of Urban life". I did not receive that information.
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Jared Thompson
1.0 out of 5 stars This book is possibly the most tautological, reprehensibly vague ...
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2017
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This book is possibly the most tautological, reprehensibly vague content I have ever read on human ethics, data, and the emerging world of data and digital tech. Ratti and Claudei are shills for a gross, disturbing and unquestioning future at the hands of data miners and companies. It is nearly impossible to read, when
passing every other sentence is a loaded and bloated statement about the human species and our history. Reading for a class, otherwise avoid at all costs.
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PhDStudent
3.0 out of 5 stars A little bit messy, a succession of inquiries into ...
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2016
A little bit messy, a succession of inquiries into specific technologies without any clear insight on how they are going to change the way we live.
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1.0 out of 5 stars One Star
Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2016
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Very difficult to read
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Giulia Marcelli
5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning
Reviewed in Italy on July 31, 2023
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Lettura super interessante, da spunti alternativi e visioni particolari sulla città e sull'urbanistica attuale e futura.
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UNITED PLANETS
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 24, 2017
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good book
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5.0 out of 5 stars Worth a read!
Reviewed in India on January 18, 2017
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It satisfies the intention of the author being a "framework" with which a future discussions can be held.
Helpful for anyone interested in city space hack
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Francesco Domenico Moccia
3.0 out of 5 stars May ICT give a better city to people
Reviewed in Italy on June 9, 2018
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The book is a review of technology affecting urban space. I appreciate the authors have a thinking indipendente of lage companies are investing in ICT systems and try to market their production. Their effort is to understand how innovation may favor people and promote a better urban environment
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