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Title Smart Cities As Spaces Of Flows And The Digital Turn In Architecture And Urban Planning: Big Data Vis-À-Vis Environmental And Social Equity
ID_Doc 49500
Authors Charitonidou M.
Year 2024
Published Smart Spaces: a volume in Intelligent Data-Centric Systems
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-13462-3.00003-0
Abstract This chapter aims to shed light on the epistemological mutations that are related to the digital turn in architecture and urban planning and their pedagogies. Special attention is paid to the “paperless studios” at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). The chapter also examines Greg Lynn’s Embryological House (1997–2001), Asymptote Architecture’s 3DTF Virtual Trading Floor (VTF) (1997–99) commissioned by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC), dECOi architects’ Aegis Hyposurface (1999–2001), and the National Digital Twin programme (NDTp). The analysis of these case studies intends to show how the digital turn in architecture and urban planning is related to certain ontological transformations concerning design processes. The chapter also examines the epistemological and ontological shifts related to the first digital turn in architecture and urban planning, as well as the second digital turn in these fields and the role of urban scale digital twins in shaping sustainable urban policies. It also places particular emphasis on how urban scale digital twins help develop new data-driven scenarios, promote sustainable development goals, and shape new participatory design methods. At the core of the chapter is the conviction that it is of pivotal importance to shape methodological tools that would offer the possibility of developing new forms of social advocacy around big data, and would create a shared terrain of reflections between the debates on smart cities and the debates around urban commons. © 2024 Elsevier Inc. All rights are reserved including those for text and data mining AI training and similar technologies.
Author Keywords Asymptote Architecture; Big data; Embryological House; Generative processes; Greg Lynn; Interactivity; Objectile; Paperless studios; Real-time simulation; Second digital turn; Smart cities; Spaces of flows; Spatial flux; Urban scale digital twins


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