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Literature Reviews by The Mobile City
LITERATURE REVIEWS >>
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
Mobile Media and Urban Design
In today's cities, our everyday lives are increasingly
shaped by digital media technologies. The Mobile City
is a research group that investigates this new urban
condition and its implications for urban design.
shaped by digital media technologies. The Mobile City
is a research group that investigates this new urban
condition and its implications for urban design.
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Publications
Here you find some relevant publications by The Mobile City. All available under a Creative Commons license, unless specified otherwise.
2011
De Lange, M., & De Waal, M. (2011). Ownership in de Hybride Stad. Available from http://www.virtueelplatform.nl/ownership (pdf 9.5 MB – in Dutch).
De Waal, M. (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, M. (2011) “De rol van digitale media in het stedelijk ontwerp” in: Best Practice #Excellente #e-cultuur Amsterdam: Virtueel Platform.
2010
De Lange, M. (2010). Moving Circles: mobile media and playful identities. Unpublished PhD dissertation, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam. [other CC license than this blog]
De Waal, M. (2010) “New Use of Cellular Networks; The Necessity of Recognizing the Nuances of Privacy” in OPEN Nr. 19 Rotterdam: NAi Publishers
2009
De Lange, M., & De Waal, M. (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, M. (2009). From always on to always there: Locative media as Playful Technologies. In A. de Souza e Silva & D. M. Sutko (Eds.), Digital cityscapes: merging digital and urban playspaces (pp. 55-70). New York: Peter Lang. [fair use - not under CC]
De Lange, M. (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, M. (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, M. (2009). Three philosophical questions about the ’sentient city’ – a response to the exhibition Towards the Sentient City. Toward the Sentient City
2008
De Waal, M., & De Lange, M. (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, M. (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, M., & Polak, E. (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, M. (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