An exploration of the modest potentials and serious contradictions of reconfiguring urban life through computational operating systems.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 contemporary contexts in which urban com...

Whether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure orders—and depends on—multiple urban temporalities.This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between temporality, infrastructure, and urban society. Conceptually rich and empirically detailed, its interdisciplinary dialogue encompasses infrastructural systems including transportation, energy, and water to bridge often-siloed technical, polit...

Achieving sustainable energy and resource use is vital if cities are to thrive or even function in the long term. Focusing on cities in the United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark, this book examines the mounting pressures for changes in the management style of utility services in Europe, pressures that stem from a wide range of sources such as liberalization and privatization of markets, tighter environmental standards, new economic incentives, competing technologies and changing consumption ...

What does the transition to a Low Carbon Britain mean for the future development of cities and regions across the country? Does it reinforce existing ‘business as usual’ or create new transformational opportunities? Low Carbon Nation? takes an interdisciplinary approach to tackle this critical question, by looking across the different dimensions of technological, scientific, social and economic change within the diverse city and regional contexts of the UK.Hodson and Marvi...

Splintering Urbanism makes an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex interactions between infrastructure networks and urban spaces. It delivers a new and powerful way of understanding contemporary urban change, bringing together discussions about:*globalization and the city*technology and society*urban space and urban networks*infrastructure and the built environment*developed, developing and post-communist worlds.With...

Telecommunications and the City provides the first critical and state-of-the-art review of the relations between telecommunications and all aspects of city development and management. Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches and a wide body of recent research, the book addresses key academic and policy debates about technological change and the future of cities with a fresh perspective. Through this approach, the complex and crucial transformations underway in cities in which telecommu...

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Du hast es geschafft. Du hältst mich in deinen Händen und bist aktiv dabei zu lesen. Das ist schon einmal eine große Leistung und ein erster Schritt, um mit mir in Kontakt zu kommen. Du fragst dich unweigerlich, wieviel Gramm Papier du in deinen Händen hältst, welche Rolle ich in deinem Leben einnehmen werde und welcher Text von einer KI geschrieben wurde?Du wirst es nicht glauben, aber ich bin genau das richtige Buch für dich. Kein Witz. Greif zu. Nachdem du mich schon so lange in...

In this mind-expanding book, scientific pioneer Marvin Minsky continues his groundbreaking research, offering a fascinating new model for how our minds work. He argues persuasively that emotions, intuitions, and feelings are not distinct things, but different ways of thinking.By examining these different forms of mind activity, Minsky says, we can explain why our thought sometimes takes the form of carefully reasoned analysis and at other times turns to emotion. He shows how our mi...

From a former FBI Special Agent specializing in behavior analysis and recruiting spies comes a handbook filled with his proven strategies on how to instantly read people and influence how they perceive you, so you can easily turn on the like switch.The Like Switch is packed with all the tools you need for turning strangers into friends, whether you are on a sales call, a first date, or a job interview. As a Special Agent for the FBI’s Nat...

Strafrecht kompakt: Die komplexe Materie des Strafverfahrens wird in der bewährten Darstellungsweise der AnwaltFormulare aufbereitet und vermittelt das nötige Rüstzeug, um in allen Abschnitten des Strafverfahrens erfolgreich verteidigen zu können. Das Werk richtet sich sowohl an erfahrene als auch an nur gelegentlich im Strafrecht tätige KollegInnen. Zur Verdeutlichung des jeweiligen Themenkomplexes werden typische Situationen vorgestellt und die für den Umgang mit ihnen erforderlichen rec...

Leidenschaft, Liebe und Talent.Das sind große Worte, doch sie sind wohl gewählt, genau wie alle anderen Worte, die sich in diesem Sammelband tummeln. Außerdem verbinden diese Attribute die 22 Poet*innen, die in früheren Jahren und brandaktuell die Freiburger Poetry Slam- Szene rock(t)en. Ohne Leidenschaft für das geschriebene Wort, Liebe für fein ausformulierte Sätze, Reime, Humor und das Talent für fristgerechte Abgabetermine wäre dieses Buch nicht entstanden.Freuen Sie si...