The City as Interface. How Digital Media are Changing the City

nai010 publishers intend the Reflect series to focus attention on socially relevant themes for architecture, urban planning, fine art and design.

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Previously published in the Reflect series: reflect # 01 New Commitment In Architecture, Art and design Various authors reflect #02 Stadswijk Stedenbouw in het dagelijks leven Arnold Reijndorp reflect #03 The Capsular Civilization On the City in the Age of Fear Lieven De Cauter reflect #04 Documentary now!

Contemporary strategies in photography, film and the visual arts Various authors reflect #05 Creativity and the city How the creative economy changes the city Various authors

reflect #06 Urban Polictics Now Re-Imagining Democracy in the Neoliberal City Various authors reflect #07 Questioning History Imagining the Past in Contemporary Art Various authors reflect #08 Art and Activism in the Age of Globalization Various authors reflect #09 Entropic Empire On the City of Man in the Age of Disaster Lieven De Cauter

The City as Interface How Digital Media are Changing the City Martijn de Waal

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Introduction 6 The Future of the City: a Smart City or a Social City?

Chapter 1 Pendrecht: a Brief History of the Parochial Domain Chapter 2 The Neighbourhood as an ‘Interface’ in Daily Life Chapter 3 Digital Media and the Parochial Domain Chapter 4 The Eternal Crisis of the Public Domain Chapter 5 Schouwburgplein: the Public Domain in Practice Chapter 6 Digital Media and the Public Domain

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Conclusion The City of the Future, The Future of the City

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Notes 178 Bibliography 195 Blogs 205 Acknowledgements 206 Credits 208

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Contents

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The Future of the City: a Smart City or a Social City?

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Pendrecht: a Brief History of the Parochial Domain

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The Neighbourhood as an ‘Interface’ in Everyday Life

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Digital Media and the Parochial Domain

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The Eternal Crisis of the Public Domain

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Schouwburgplein: the Public Domain in Practice

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Digital Media and the Public Domain

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Credits

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Texts: Martijn de Waal; translation: Vivien Reid/Bookmakers; copy editing: Bookmakers; design: Joseph Plateau; lithography and printing: die Keure, Bruges; publisher: Marcel Witvoet, nai010 publishers

Illustration credits Cover: Keiichi Matsuda, video still from Augmented City 3D; Introduction: diagrams for the ideal Renaissance city, inspired by Vitruvius; Ch.1: Lotte Stam-Beese, design for Pendrecht Rotterdam; Ch.2: psynovec/ 123RF, New York black white city plan - street texture; Ch.3: Christian Nold, East Paris Emotion Map; Ch.4: Guy Debord and Asger Jorn, The Naked City; Ch.5: Three months on Foursquare, Rotterdam; Ch.6: MIT SENSEable City Lab Trash Track; Conclusion: Archigram, Computer City

The City as Interface

This publication was made possible by financial support from Creative Industries Fund NL, Municipal Services for Arts and Culture, City of Rotterdam and Van Eesteren-Fluck & Van Lohuizen Foundation.

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Printed and bound in Belgium ISBN 978-94-6208-050-8 The City as Interface is also available as e-book and in a Dutch edition: The City as Interface epub ISBN 978-94-6208-076-8 De stad als interface ISBN 978-94-6208-049-2 De stad als interface epub ISBN 978-94-6208-075-1