Decoding the City

▴ Decoding the City. Urbanism in the Age of Big Data

▴ Spot relief varnish is applied to the dotted letters.

▴ In reference to graphical user interfaces, the black-and-white design features customized icons to identify each author’s contribution.

▴ Michael Szell, Benedikt Groß: Hubcab — Exploring the Benefits of Shared Taxi Services (taxi traces in New York City)

▴ The book is typeset in Lyon Text and Myriad.

▴ Kristian Kloeckl: The City as a Digital Public Space — Notes for the Design of Live Urban Data Platforms

▴ Decoding the City is divided into three sections.

▴ Andres Sevtsuk: Networks of the Built Environment

▴ Stanislav Sobolevsky: Digital Approach to Regional Delineation

DECODING THE CITY

Urbanism in the Age of Big Data

Cities and urban societies: planning, policy, and economics are no longer the only disciplines responding to the challenges of the contemporary city. New actors have entered the field and bring new approaches to investigating, shaping, and governing urban environments. Digital traces and data sets have become an important resource for understanding the city. This book introduces both the methods and the nature of data-driven urbanism as a basis for developing the big data literacy essential for public discourse.

Edited by Dietmar Offenhuber and Carlo Ratti.
With contributions by Fabien Girardin, Michael Szell, Benedikt Groß, Anthony Vanky, David Lee, Francisca M. Rojas, Kristian Kloeckl, Pedro Cruz, Penousal Machado, Philipp Hövel, Filippo Simini, Chaoming Song, Albert-László Barabási, Kael Greco, Andres Sevtsuk, Markus Schläpfer, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Stanislav Sobolevsky.

Published by Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel.

ISBN 978-3-03821-597-4

Design: Res Eichenberger Design, Zürich

Softcover, 192 pages, printed by DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg on PlanoPlus, 4 color offset printing