(* subject to change)
W1 (FEB 2) Introduction
- Meet and greet. Course overview. Logistics.
W2 (FEB 9) Smart Cities vs Smart Citizens
- Usman Haque, “What Is a City that It Would Be ‘Smart’?” Volume #34: City in a Box (Amsterdam: Archis, 2012): 140-142
- Anthony Townsend, “Urbanization and Ubiquity,” Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia (New York: Norton, 2013): 19-56
- Dan Hill, “On the Smart City; Or, a ‘Manifesto’ for smart citizens instead,” City of Sound (February 1, 2013)
W3 (FEB 16) Tabula Rasa: New Songdo
- Anthony Townsend, “$100 Billion Dollar Jackpot,” Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia (New York: Norton, 2013): 19-56
- Orit Halpern, Jesse LeCavalier, Nerea Calvillo, and Wolfgang Pietsch, “Test bed as urban epistemology,” Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn? (New York: Routledge, 2016): 145-167
W4 (FEB 23) Quantified Community: Hudson Yards
- Constantine Kontokosta, “The Quantified Community and Neighborhood Labs: A Framework for Computational Urban Planning and Civic Technology Innovation”
- Shannon Mattern, “Instrumental City: The View from Hudson Yards, circa 2019,” Places Journal (April 2016).
W5 (MAR 2) Sensing the Smart Citizen
- Jennifer Gabrys, “Citizen Sensing in the Smart and Sustainable City: From Environments to Environmentality,” Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet (Minneapolis: Minnesota Press, 2016): 185-206
- Mark Shepard and Antonina Simeti, “What’s so smart about the Smart Citizen?” Smart Citizens (Manchester: FutureEverything, 2013)
W6 (MAR 9) Urban Data Infrastructures
- Rob Kitchin, Tracey P. Lauriault and Gavin McArdle, “Smart cities and the politics of urban data,” Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn (New York: Routledge, 2016): 16-33
- Jennifer Gabrys, “Digital Infrastructures of Withness: Constructing a Speculative City,” Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet (Minneapolis: Minnesota Press, 2016): 241-266
W7 (MAR 16) DIY and Participatory Urbanism
- Anthony Townsend, “Tinkering Toward Utopia,” Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia (New York: Norton, 2013): 142-167
- Jennifer Gabrys, “Engaging the Idiot in Participatory Digital Urbanism,” Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet (Minneapolis: Minnesota Press, 2016): 207-240
W8 (MAR 23) Spring Break (NO CLASS)
W9 (MAR 30) Topic Presentations
- 5 minute presentations on proposed topic
W10 (APR 6) Open Source Urbanism
- Anthony Townsend, “Open Source Metropolis,” Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia (New York: Norton, 2013): 115-141
- Usman Haque and Mathew Fuller, “Urban Versioning System 1.0,” Situated Technologies Pamphlets #2 (New York: The Architectural League of New York, 2008
W11 (APR 13) Crashing and Hacking the Smart City
- Anthony Townsend, “Buggy, Brittle and Bugged,” Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia (New York: Norton, 2013): 252-281
- Cesar Cerrudo, “An Emerging US (and World) Threat: Cities Wide Open to Cyber Attacks,” White Paper, IOActive Labs
W12 (APR 20) Alternative Futures
- Michiel de Lange and Martijn de Waal, “Owning the city: New media and citizen engagement in urban design.” First Monday[Online], 18.11 (2013): Web. 30 Jan. 2017
- Rob Kitchin, “Reframing, reimagining and remaking smart cities,” Programmable City Working Paper 20 (August 2016).
W13 (APR 27) Final Presentations
- 15 minute presentations of paper topic
W14 (MAY 4) Final Presentations
- 15 minute presentations of paper topic
W15 (MAY 11) Final Reviews (NO CLASS)
Final Papers Due: May 18