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Literature Reviews by The Mobile City
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Review: Paul Dourish & Genevieve Bell – Divining a digital future (2011)
In Divining a Digital Future (2011), computer scientist Paul Dourish (Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine) and cultural anthropologist Genevieve Bell (Intel Interaction and Experience Research Lab) again team up in an
Review: Aurigi & De Cindio (2008) – Augmented urban spaces
Aurigi, A., & De Cindio, F. (2008). Augmented urban spaces: articulating the physical and electronic city. Aldershot: Ashgate. (The introduction is a free read from the website). This book from 2008 had been on my
review: Stephen Graham – The Cybercities Reader (2004)
In The Cybercities Reader (2004) Stephen Graham – at that time Professor of Urban Technology in Newcastle – bundles a great number of seminal texts about the intersections of digital media technologies and urban life.
review: Kevin Lynch – The Image of the City
As part of a new effort of The Mobile City to compile an ever-expanding overview of literature relevant to our themes, I will review this oldie-goldie published in 1960. I particularly assess its enduring relevance
Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: a matter of ‘U-City’ or ‘U-Citizens?’
I just finished reading Marcus Foth’s Handbook of research on Urban Informatics. It’s an edited volume as thick as a fist, packed with essays that when taken altogether give a great overview of this exciting
Review: “Portable Objects in Three Global Cities” by Mimi Ito et al.
Mimi Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Ken Anderson have an interesting chapter in the edited volume by Rich Ling & Scott Campbell (2009) “The reconstruction of space and time: mobile communication practices” which recently came
The Big Sort, The Uses of Disorder and mobile media
I just read two books – written almost 40 years apart – that signal the same urban problem: cities and towns in the United States are becoming increasingly segregated into monocultural lifestyle enclaves – like
Scott McQuire’s The Media City
I just finished reading the highly interesting book The Media City by Scott McQuire. It is a philosophical approach to the role of media in the experience of the city. I found two insights worth

Publications
Here you find some relevant publications by The Mobile City. All available under a Creative Commons license, unless specified otherwise.
2013
de Lange, Michiel. 2013. From gengsi to gaul: mobile media and playful identities in Jakarta. In Understanding Contemporary Culture: New Directions in Arts & Humanities Research, edited by J. Thissen, K. Zijlmans and R. Zwijnenberg. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [soon online]
de Lange, Michiel. 2013. The smart city you love to hate: Exploring the role of affect in hybrid urbanism. In The Hybrid City II: Subtle rEvolutions, edited by D. Charitos, I. Theona, D. Dragona and H. Rizopoulos. 23-25 May 2013. Athens, Greece. [soon online]
Tuters, Marc, & Michiel de Lange. 2013. Executable Urbanisms: Messing with Ubicomp’s Singular Future. In R. Buschauer & K. S. Willis (Eds.), Locative Media: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Media and Locality (pp. 49-70). Bielefeld: Transcript.
Bouw, Matthijs, Froukje van de Klundert, Michiel de Lange & Martijn de Waal. (2013). Eindhoven Hackable World City. Amsterdam (pdf 2.2 MB Dutch).
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2012
de Waal, Martijn. 2012. Toekomst van de Stad. Essay in bundel Raad voor de Leefomgeving. (Dutch)
de Lange, Michiel. 2012. Stad, spel, media: spelenderwijs eigenaar worden van je stad. In E. Holleman, R.-J. de Kort & S. Lindemann (Eds.), Balkan in de polder: naar organische gebiedsontwikkeling in Nederland? (pp. 78-82). Amsterdam: Mondriaanfonds (Dutch).
de Lange, Michiel. 2012. Digitale media en de stad: omarm de complexiteit. Architectenweb Magazine (nummer 48, mei/juni 2012), 60-63 (Dutch).
de Waal, Martijn. 2012. De Stad als Interface. PhD dissertation, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. (Dutch)
de Waal, Martijn. 2012. ‘The Ideas and Ideals in Urban Media‘ In From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen, edited by M. e. a. Foth. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
de Lange, Michiel. 2012. Eigenaarschap: stedelingen betrekken bij hun stad met digitale media. In M. Kreijveld (Ed.), Samen Slimmer. Hoe de wisdom of crowds onze samenleving verandert. (pp. 152-153). Den Haag: STT (Dutch).
de Lange, Michiel, and Martijn de Waal. 2012. Ownership in the Hybrid City. Available from http://www.virtueelplatform.nl/ownership.
de Lange, Michiel. 2012. Txt and the city. Canvas8. Available from http://www.themobilecity.nl/2012/04/28/txt-and-the-city/.
2011
de Lange, Michiel, and Martijn de Waal. 2011. What Is Ownership and Why Does It Matter? Volume, #30 Privatize!, 40-43. (this is the introduction to the English version of Ownership in the Hybrid City).
de Lange, Michiel, and Martijn de Waal. 2011. Ownership in de Hybride Stad. Available from http://www.virtueelplatform.nl/ownership (Dutch).
de Waal, Martijn. 2011. “The Urban Culture of Sentient Cities: From an internet of things to a public sphere centered around things” in Mark Shepard ed. Toward the Sentient City Cambridge MA: MIT Press. [individual fair use only - not under CC]
de Waal, Martijn. 2011. “De rol van digitale media in het stedelijk ontwerp” in: Best Practice #Excellente #e-cultuur Amsterdam: Virtueel Platform.
2010
de Lange, Michiel. 2010. Moving Circles: mobile media and playful identities. PhD dissertation, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam. [other CC license than this blog]
de Waal, Martijn. 2010. “New Use of Cellular Networks; The Necessity of Recognizing the Nuances of Privacy” in OPEN Nr. 19 Rotterdam: NAi Publishers.
2009
de Lange, Michiel, and Martijn de Waal. 2009. How can architects relate to digital media? The Mobile City keynote at the ‘Day of the Young Architect’: outcomes and further thoughts.
de Lange, Michiel. 2009. From always on to always there: Locative media as Playful Technologies. In Adriana de Souza e Silva & Daniel M. Sutko (eds.), Digital cityscapes: merging digital and urban playspaces (pp. 55-70). New York: Peter Lang. [fair use - not under CC]
de Lange, Michiel. 2009. The Mobile City project and urban gaming. Second Nature: International journal of creative media, special issue “Games, Locative & Mobile Media”, 1(2), 160-169.
de Waal, Martijn. 2009. The Urban Ideals of Location-based Media. In H. Tsui & N. Ford (Eds.), Cities of Desire. An Urban Culture Exchange between Vienna and Hong Kong. Vienna: City Transit Publisher.
de Waal, Martijn. 2009. Three philosophical questions about the ’sentient city’ – a response to the exhibition Towards the Sentient City. Toward the Sentient City
2008
de Waal, Martijn, and Michiel de Lange. 2008. The Mobile City: a conference on locative media, urban culture and identity (Conference text). The Mobile City conference, February 27-28 2008 in Rotterdam.
De Waal. M. (2008) ‘Towards a MySpace Urbanism?‘ in: Vodafone Receiver
de Waal, Martijn. (2008). From BLVD Urbanism towardmars MSN Urbanism. Locative media and urban culture. In F. Eckardt (Ed.), Media City. Weimar: Bauhaus University Press. [individual fair use only - not under CC]
2007
de Lange, Michiel, and Esther Polak. 2007. NomadicMILK. In K. Zijlmans, R. Zwijnenberg & K. Clevis (Eds.), Co-Ops, interterritoriale verkenningen in kunst en wetenschap/Exploring new territories in art and science. Work in progress. Amsterdam: De Buitenkant. [fair use - not under CC]
de Waal, Martijn. 2007. ‘Powerifications’ in: Christine de Baan, Joachim Declerck, Veronique Patteeuw ed. Visionary Power. Producing the Contemporary City. Catalogue of International Architecture Biennal Rotterdam Rotterdam: NAI Uitgevers.