Shaping Sustainable Cities in a Networked Society. Great new infographic by Ericsson.
在網路社會打造永續城市。Ericsson製作的新資訊圖表。
From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen
Urban Informatics, Social Media, Ubiquitous Computing, and Mobile Technology to Support Citizen Engagement
(Source: urbaninformatics.net)
Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City
by: William J. Mitchell
This book is enlightening for urban studies in the future.
Watch lectures http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/170/
Networked society city index
By Ericsson
The Real Social Life of Wireless Public Spaces
Shaping urban infrastructures. Intermediaries and the governance of socio-technical networks
Redrawing Britain using phone calls
Redrawing the map of Great Britain from a network of human interactions
Do regional boundaries defined by governments respect the more natural ways that people interact across space? This paper proposes a novel, fine-grained approach to regional delineation, based on analyzing networks of billions of individual human transactions. Given a geographical area and some measure of the strength of links between its inhabitants, we show how to partition the area into smaller, non-overlapping regions while minimizing the disruption to each person’s links. We tested our method on the largest non-Internet human network, inferred from a large telecommunications database in Great Britain. Our partitioning algorithm yields geographically cohesive regions that correspond remarkably well with administrative regions, while unveiling unexpected spatial structures that had previously only been hypothesized in the literature. We also quantify the effects of partitioning, showing for instance that the effects of a possible secession of Wales from Great Britain would be twice as disruptive for the human network than that of Scotland.
Carlo Ratti, Stanislav Sobolevsky, Francesco Calabrese, Clio Andris, Jonathan Reades, Mauro Martino, Rob Claxton, Steven H Strogatz - PLoS ONE, 2010
(Source: economist.com)
