The contributions in this volume map out how technologies are used and designed to plan, maintain, govern, demolish, and destroy the city. The chapters demonstrate how urban technologies shape, and are shaped, by fundamental concepts and principles such as citizenship, publicness, democracy, and nature. The many authors herein explore how to think of technologically mediated urban space as part of the human condition. The volume will thus contribute to the much-needed discussion on technology-enabled urban futures from the perspective of the philosophy of technology. This perspective also contributes to the discussion and process of making cities 'smart' and just. This collection appeals to students, researchers, and professionals within the fields of philosophy of technology, urban planning, and engineering.

Unique coverage of the interplay between technologies and the city from a philosophical perspective Can be used as a supplemental text within philosophy, urban planning, and engineering programs Goes beyond the limited focus of privacy concerns and the trolley problem toward a philosophy of the smart and just city

Autorentext
Dr. Michael Nagenborg is Assistant Professor for Philosophy of Technology at the University of Twente's Philosophy Department. He is a board member of the Philosophy of the City Research Group and a management team member of the 4TU.Center for Ethics and Technology. Michael Nagenborg did pioneering work in the ethics and politics of computing and robotics. His current research focus is located at the intersection of Philosophy of the City and Philosophy of Technology. Besides teaching in Philosophy programmes, he is involved in curricula development and teaching of various engineering and design-oriented programmes. Dr. Taylor Stone is cross-appointed as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Philosophy Department of Delft University of Technology. His research focuses on how technologies and infrastructures shape, and are shaped by, social and environmental values. He takes this up through conceptual investigations into human-technology-environment relations, in combination with practical work on the responsible design of new and emerging technologies. Margoth González Woge is a PhD candidate at the Philosophy Department of the University of Twente. She is a lecturer in Philosophy of Technology at the Technology and Liberal Arts & Sciences (ATLAS) honours programme at University College Twente, where she is also involved in curricula development. Her research focuses on human-technology interactions within high-tech environments, drawing from postphenomenology and ecological-enactive cognition. Dr. Pieter Vermaas is Associate Professor at the Philosophy Department of Delft University of Technology. His research focusses on the epistemology of design and the analysis of claims about what design in engineering, product-development and architecture can achieve and bring to society. He is President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (http://www.spt.org/), Executive Director of the Delft Design for Values institute (http://designforvalues.tudelft.nl/) and Editor in Chief of the Philosophy of Engineering and Technology book series (https://www.springer.com/series/8657).

Inhalt

1. Introduction (Michael Nagenborg, Taylor Stone & Pieter E. Vermaas).- 2. Technology and the City: From the perspective of philosophy of organicism (Wang Qian & Yu Xue).- 3. Technology and Aesthetic Means of Displaying the City (Tea Lobo).- 4. Choreographing Movement in the Computational City (Jaana Parviainena & Seija Ridellb).- 5. Aesthetic Perpsectives to Urban Technologies: Conceptualizing and evaluating the technology-driving changes in the urban experience (Sanna Lehtinen & Vesa Vihanninjoki).- 6. Invisible Structures: The limitations of phenomenological approaches to infrastructure (Mark Thomas Young).- 7. Structure and Background: The philosophical challenges of infrastructures (Marcel Müller).- 8. Locative Reverb: Artistic practice, digitial technology, and the grammatization of the listener in the city (El Putnam).- 9. Giving Design to the City: The impact of the design technology of shape grammar systems on citizens and cities (Pieter E. Vermaas & Sara Eloy).- 10. Are You Afraid of the Dark? Designing values into the next generation of streetlights (Taylor Stone).- 11. Universally Designed Urban Environments: "A Mindless Abuse of the ideal of Equality" or a Matter of Social Justice? (Kevin Mintz).- 12. Issues Surrounding Dockless, App-Based, Shared Bicycles in China (Aline Chevalier & Rockwell F. Clancy).- 13. From Liberalism to Experimentation: Reconstructing the normative dimensions of public space (Udo Pesch).- 14. A Philosophy of Sidewalks: Reclaiming promiscuous public spaces (Germán Bula).- 15. Authenticity and the 'Authentic City' (Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow).- 16. Living Laboratories: Watching and changing the behavior of smart citizens (Bart van der Sloot & Marjolein Lanzing).- 17. Theorizing Sediment Traps in Urban Digital Infrastructures: Tracing the enactment of suspicion in technologically mediated policing (Vlad Niculescu-Dinca).- 18. Binding the SmartCity Human-Digital System with Communicative Processes (Brandt Dainow).- 19. Ghost Walks for Wireless Networks (Robert Seddon).- 20. Smartness in Layered Cities (Stefano Borgo, Dino Borri, Domenico Camarda & Maria Rosaria Stufano Melone).- 21. Applying Biomimicry to Cities: The forest as model for urban planning and design (Henry Dicks).