Author: shengao

Alternative Future—-Shen

1 Owning the city: New media and citizen engagement in Urban design

When we facing the issues about turning Smart City into Social cities, such like social equity and environmental sustainability and adequate water. Those issues could solve easily by the smart city and other issues such like perceived decline of publicness and aging population. Those issues as it said are not single party issues, they are collective issues that involve multiple fiction. What if those problem are remaining by ages and social change. Those issues could be facing city transition and city decline, which could not change by smart city and how to deal with them ?

 

Like it said the ownership relationship between citizens and city. Which citizen could get involved decided where the place to build and how the land will be used. This could be happened in a small population region. With massive population to involve the original intention could be failed. Populism some time could destroy a city without code or guide line. How could we select the people who can involve and how far citizens could involve the process, and what is the guide line of this involvement?

2 Rethinking, Reimagining and Remaking Smart cities

While we consider what smart city we would like to live in, it has several viewing angle, like compare with the promises and perils we could choice which technology we could us and apply best to us in our smart city. the writer said the means is post- justified by ends, rather than the ends shaping the means. Is that also means that we should choice and build our smart city we want not supposed be fit with the smart city as it data collector?   

 

The process of smart city evolve is required stakeholder and working relationship how do we decided the principles? And how could principles balance the stakeholder and the public? Will this be practical? Or just ideological imagine?

Crashing and Hacking the Smart City — Shen

1 Buggy, Brittle, and Bugged

 

From the case 9.11 and US east earthquake in 2011 are showed that creation myths rely on faith as much as fact. It demonstrated how our cyber world could more brittle then we thought. And those are just caused by nature. In fact our cyber world are suffering attack or errors thousand times a day. How could we measure the loss of the cyber broke down? and how’s the restore power of the our society in the future cyber world?      

 

Like the sensor served by it code, every data capture by it are served by own purpose. How to consider the hacker act of hacking system? Hacking bank system and benefit for itself considered as negative? Or hacking government data exposure dark history consider as positive? How could we defined the boundary of the cyber world act? Or could it consider access forbidden data as hacker?

2 An emerging US threat: City Wide Open to Cyber Attacks

There are so many option to break down our cyber world. What if our data infrastructure has been wiped out? Like one day all our individual currency or credit information data has been wiped out. Could we restore our order to our used to be? Is there any crash program to due with certain kinds of issues?

 

 

Open Source Urbanism—- Shen

1  The open-source Metropolis

The dodgeball used the “check-in” started flooding in the city, it was like hash tag used in our social network, but back in 2003, this kind of words notification does it really motived the people to “check in” ?  Today our social network is full of picture and video clips. Is kind of showoff, and let other friends or subscribers to interactive with the person who showoffs and give them satisfaction. The dodgeball was like a single active action for friends up data their location, even its added with romance experience it still doesn’t seem with such motivated behavior.

In 2002 December all it cooperation have dominated the public WIFI control, the wifi become more commercial product then it used to be. But since then, the WIFI has been generalized to public. Is the commercial movement benefited the wifi popularized or the commercial operated just in time?

Urban Versioning System 1.0   

Open source could be benefits to user and encourage the device or soft wear improve itself. Does this means open source doing really benefit? As we know IOS and Android OS always. Android os is more open then IOS but the apps and software are quite unstable. So is open source are not doing well in some situation?   

The copying and not copying are irrelevant the idea from software to architecture is it consider as open source operation? The architecture could be self- building construction. And a lots of construction material retailer already support the idea. why does this open sources idea doesn’t seems positive then open source software and electronic devices?     

DIY and Participatory Urbanism—- Shen

1 Tinkering Toward Utopia

The success of Foursquare is let the costumer participate in the data commutation, meanwhile this kind of motivational data structure could destroy the data neutrality?  In the first 3 years Foursquare was collected data like survey, then they dig the data and shift into tendentiousness. Was that reversal the purpose?

Geraci described that DIY city was a totally bottom up organization. All those community are from bottom. It that the reason those kind of form would not lasting long? Like people swipe from one social network to another, from yep to Foursquare. What if all those app share data and customer, will this help?

 

2 Engaging the Idiot in Participatory Digital Urbanism

 Beside mobile app and sensors devices, what else could we engage or participate the digital urbanism?

Since ancient Greek they used coins in pot to vote and participated politics engagements. In digital urbanism, individuals could more easily participate politics and voting, could that lead to a populism? And how to prevent public data engagement will not be manipulate?

The idiot of could means that public could been collected and contributed to the data network without noticing, so that data collected will be authentic and neutrality. When a person who is aware of his data and information will be collected, he/she might not be act normal. So we need the sample to be “idiot”?  After several decades when people used to be a data collector, will this problem be vanished ?

Urban Data Infrastructure —-Shen

1 Smart cities and the politics of urban data

Technocratic governance is government under the data and suitable algorithms control. Those solutions created by algorithms should be always the best choice. In such cases will we lost control by algorithms? In the end those algorithms might destroy democracy?

 

Those concerns about smart city data most of them are already existing, there is an issue about data neutrality. Such as carbon dioxide rate, it used to believed carbon dioxide is main reason causing global warming, will in recent research shows that aren’t. data at our present perceive could be total different and might leading to serious problems.

2 Digital Infrastructures—-Jennifer Gabrys

 

The program earth as techno-geographies it easily confuse with GIS geographic information system. The GIS system also is a data collector testing bed which help making better decision and improved communication, but GIS is more likely a data recording. Should we use the sensing to track huge environment data? The environment seems like an invariable data model, which only change tiny in a decade.

 

Sensing the Samrt Citizen —- Shen

What is so smart about smart citizens?

 

As smart citizens are the data indicator, we all contribute to the system. Those data could influence the political and governance. If the data which play the main role in making policy, it would be centralized governance, we might also lost freedom and flexibility to control our own life?

The smart citizens are come up with commercial idea, if we look on the other way, all the citizens in the smart city are just data indicator or collector, it’s not unreplaceable. Indeed the city and network system become more smart, but what about the citizens? How much benefits could we get from the smart city?

 

Citizens sensing—-Jennifer Gabrys

Biopolitical 2.0 is a term discuss about life living in smart city with media network, consider the programming the city, how should citizen be the part of the city?  Who will be the input and who will be the output devices? And what is the sequence of each person as input/output devices?

 

Biopolitical 2.0 seems more concern like population effect. Under this circumstance the citizen and citizenship could have distinct shift. Power and wealthy will shift easily. Is this change give citizen more democracy or constraint the citizen’s distinctive?

 

 

 

Quantified Community: Hudson Yards —-Shen

1 Instrument city 

New York’s gradual, lot-by-lot evolution; the danger is that it can produce a jumble, that kind of jumble is cause of the previous New York infrastructure or the testing bed system self-chaos?

Could this jumble also happens in other project or even take places at any other new city?

Hudson yard is an example of the data science interdisciplinary practice this practice requires collaboration among every smart citizens participate. Do we have the right to revoke our participate?

 

2 The Quantified Community and Neighborhood Labs: A Framework for Computational Urban Science and Civic Technology Innovation

The data is the catalyze of urban development, the data analytics, and feedback on urban life will guide the city developer to district adjustment, base on the data could this lead to district polarization and finalization?

 

Tabula Rasa: New Songdo—Shen

1Testbed as urban epistemology

Could New Songdo be a huge data sampler? So that the smart city Songdo not only an information collector or a recorder, but also could make an expectation and simulation.

 

Data will be the currency in new realm, and sensing devices could be a new materializes in an architecture the more sophisticated also means more vulnerable. So this fragile system is truly benefit to the citizen who lives in the city or benefit to the people who have access to the data?

2  $100 Billion Dollar Jackpot —–Townsend

What is the purpose of the emerging and developing of the smart city? As telegraph didn’t appear out of nowhere. It was invented to meet the growing need to coordinate vast of commercial and government enterprises. So does the smart network? Do we really need the smart city?

It seems Cisco aimed China will be his next costumer due to the large amount of needs during urbanization, could the smart city be the next generation of the urbanize?

 

Smart Cities vs Smart Citizens —Shen

1 what is a City that would it be smart —Haque

Why people coerced into the smart cities? Is the citizens and the network connection resulted in high efficiency of the smart city?

 This is best exemplify in the Data>Information>Knowledge>Wisdom’ paradigm why its founded on the mistaken notion of data purity?

What is the meaning of real appeal of smart cities is how dumb these cities will actually could be?  

2   City of Sound — Dan Hill

Like Volume said smart city is a city in a box, does it means the smart city be a cybernetic control and self-organized?

What is the Smart City’s ultimate goal? Till now our city have self traffic control systems, urban duct systems or even the whole city covered by the CCTV, how far is it from now to ultimate goal?

3 Smart City —–Anthony Townsend

The digital revolution didn’t kill cities. In fact, cities everywhere are flourishing because new technologies move them face to face. If it means network and technologies make us anywhere online, then there is no reason for people gathering together in a city. Counter urbanization do happens during digital revolution.

In the 1939 world’s Fair General Motors has spent a small fortune to convince the public give up their old dwells space and rebuild cities, in the future could some internet enterprise promise a better online environment, so that public will give up their online privacy?