Author: yumeng
Alternative Futures — Yumeng Chen
Owning the city: New media and citizen engagement in urban design.
–while talking about togetherness, how to deal with the divide opinions are always the issues. Because it involve in every citizen so that we definitely can not use the minority is subordinate to the majority?
Reframing, reimagining and remaking smart cities
–Since the reformation of technology is very fast, how to balance if the technology is enough for the smart city or not enough that we need to update ?
–Smart cities bring a lot of benefits which relate to the energy solution, the citizen security. However, all these above will need a long time to show up. Which will make the test period very long. How can we get the feedback faster and more accurate?
Crashing and Hacking the Smart City–Yumeng Chen
Buggy, Brittle and Bugged
–In the case Y2K, the reality is very like the division of labour in society today, people just pay attention to their own duty, which relevance their own benefit only. However, if there’s a issue which brings no benefit or benefit others as well, who will have the motivation to do it?
An Emerging US (and World) Threat: Cities Wide Open to Cyber Attacks
–In page 8, author talks about encryption issues, test process is really big issue. Because it is really depends on specific situation where this system placed. Kind like architecture, why we say it is irreproducible, because even we got the same drawings, we can’t build the same building in 2 places due to the different of weather, environment and even the workers. Same, I think the test should be in the specific location. How do we think about this idea which relates to the cost increasing and the time increasing?
–Another thing always comes to my mind is, in order to keep the city security, we have to keep improving the firewall in order to defend the hackers, same like the chip card technology. It’s kind like an abime, since we start with the big data, open source, we start to fight against the hackers. When we began to build smart city, did we consider about the cost of the follow up cost?
Crashing and Hacking the Smart City — Yumeng Chen
Urban Versioning System 1.0
–The purpose of architecture design is not only to satisfy the functions we need, but also chasing the aesthetics. So that if it is the same purpose of open source coding? At least in the designing process, we need more then the open source benefits.
–In the IBM case, architects work together to finish a project at the same time , does it requires the architects are in the same level or can understand each others work even during the design processing?
Open Source Metropolis
–Though the open source data brings us a lot of benefits, it broke the wall that forbid a lot of cankered people or the people who don’t have enough ability out of this zone. However, now everyone enjoyed the free cakes and who will surveill this field and keep the citizens safety with their private and property?
DIY and Participatory Urbanism –Yumeng Chen
Tinkering Toward Utopia
–The DIY city requires every citizen to work together forward to the same goal, which is ok when everyone does not earn or earn the same benefit. However when someone doesn’t get the same benefit or not satisfy with the benefit, kind like the communist society. How can we keep the city running fore a long period?
Engaging the Idiot in Participatory Digital Urbanism
–When we open an app in the smart phone like iphone, it will ask you if trhe app has the ability to get the data and personal information and send it back to their servers, or running in the background to collect data. Dpes the app developer need to tell the users that it has some risk to send your personal information or data to the serve ?
–For most of people, we use smart devices not only in order to make life easy, but also enjoy the feeling that we can control everything and view all the information of trhe city. However, if the city can talk back and improve itself, how can we make sure that human beings are the controller not controlled by the city?
Urban Data Infrastructures – Yumeng Chen
Digital Infrastructures of Withness: Constructing a Speculative City
–In this article, the author talked several times about indeterminate technology about the smart city. How ever, if technology can not be positive, should we take the risk to upgrade our city to smart cities?
–In alomost all the cases, smart city is kind like equal to smart devices, or only the new buildings can be part of the smart city. Is there any example that we turn the old building to the smart building without destroy?
Smart cities and the politics of urban data
— When we are talking about the smart city, we always focus on the functions and benefits. However, we ignored that if we use devices to send and receive signals, it has the requirement of the hardwares. So that most of the citizens have to replace their devices. Does the citizens have to pay for upgrading toward the smart city?
Sensing the Smart Citizen — Yumeng Chen
Citizen Sensing in the Smart and Sustainable City: From Environments to Environmentality
If the citizens depend on the smart city’s devices too much, when accident happens, such like power cut or system crashed. Do the citizens still have the ability to reply?
If our city becomes the smart city, does it mean our living habit will change very much? Just like bought a new computer, we should install all the soft wares we need and learn how to use the new operating system?
What’s so smart about the Smart Citizen?
Now the situation is, the smart devices make a city into a new city, citizens have to learn the new like style. Which makes people do not have the sentience to the city they living in. will it makes the city became a fast food city?
When every citizen becomes the participant of building a smart city, which sounds very sweet that people will have more sense of belonging of the city. However, every human being has his own idea and understanding of how to make his own city. How can we make certain that the city will develop in the right way?
Quantified Community: Hudson Yards –Yumeng Chen
Instrumental City: The View from Hudson Yards, circa 2019
– Since read so many cases about intelligent cities, is there any standard about what is intelligent cities ? can we regard the energy conservation as part of the intelligent city ?
– In the case of bloombergianism, the intelligence mainly reflects in solving problems. So in this situation, can we consider that the engineers play more important role than architects?
The Quantified Community and Neighborhood Labs: A Framework for Computational Urban Planning and Civic Technology Innovation
– If our city can collect all the data for this city, does every citizen have the authority to see these data?
Tabula Rasa: New Songdo — Yumeng Chen
Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
-So via reading the article, many mechanical devises or good design can take place of so called smart city, so that the city will use less energy and avoid of power cut, isn’t it?
-the urban plan group of building the smart city, must be grouped of many people from different fields, is there a position that people who in this position will take care of the extra energy cost?
Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn?
-In my country, we usually have a five-year plan or fifteen-year plan, since the smart city is a very new concept, do we have a long time plan instead of roughly adding devices into the city saying making the citizens convenience?
Smart Cities vs Smart Citizens –Yumeng Chen
What Is a City that It Would Be ‘Smart’?
-If we want to build or improved a city to a smart city, certainly we need to add many basic devices, which bring no earnings. Who will pay for it?
Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
-Does intellectualize only mean the active device that we add to the city? How does the passive device work?
-It seems if we have a smart city like what the passage mentioned, the electric and internet will be the only resource and key to power the city. If we lost the power for like an hour, how can the city keep running?