Decoding the City: Urbanism in the Age of Big Data

Introduction by Dietmar Offenhuber, Carlo Ratti p.6, Data - Source and Collection: Catching the World's Eyes by Fabien Girardin p.18, Hubcab - Exploring the Benefits of Shared Taxi Services by Michael Szell, Benedikt Groß p.28, Data Availability / Data Relevance: Evaluating Real-Time Urban Information Usage in Singapore by Anthony Vanky p.40, Tracking Waste to Reduce Waste by David Lee p.52, New York Talk Exchange: Revealing Urban Dynamics through the Global Telecommunications Network Francisca M. Rojas p.62, Representation - Models and Visualization: The City as a Digital Public Space - Notes for the Design of Live Urban Data Platforms by Kristian Kloeckl p.82, City Portraits and Caricatures by Pedro Cruz, Penousal Machado p.96, Computational Models of Mobility: A Perspective from Mobile Phone Data by Philipp Hovel, Filippo Simini, Chaoming Song, Albert-Laszlo Barabási p.110, Seeing the City through Data /Seeing Data through the City Kael Greco p.125, Places - Implications for Design: Networks of the Built Environment by Andres Sevtsuk p.144, How Polycentric are Our Cities? Markus Schlapfer p.160, The Kind of Problem a City Is: New Perspectives on the Nature of Cities from Complex Systems Theory Luís M. A. Bettencourt p.168, Digital Approach to Regional Delineation Stanislav Sobolevsky p.180, Biographies p.191