Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 005

Introduction: A New Urban Ideal 009

Spatialised Intelligence 011

Technology, Space and Politics 015

Chapter 1: The Advent of the Smart City, from Flow Management to Event Control 023

Defining the Smart City 024

Self-Fulfilling Fictions 030

The Sentient and Sensory City 037

Massive Quantities of Data 046

What Happens 052

Chapter 2: A Tale of Two Cities 067

Neocybernetic Temptation 069

The Cyborg-City Hypothesis 078

Spontaneous City, Collaborative City 083

The Digital Individual 091

Chapter 3: Urban Intelligence, Space and Maps 105

Augmented Reality and Geolocation 106

Towards Three-Dimensional Urbanism 110

A New Relationship to Infrastructure 119

The Stakes of Representation 124

A New Aesthetic 138

Laboratories of Public Life in the Digital Age 140

Conclusion: The Challenges of Intelligence 145

The Limits of All-Digital Solutions 146

The Necessary Diversification of Scenarios 149

Public/Private 153

From Event to History 154

Bibliography 158

Index 162

Picture Credits 167

About the Author

Antoine Picon is the G Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is also researcher at the ?cole Nationale des Ponts et Chauss?es and President of the Fondation Le Corbusier. His current research focuses on contemporary issues around digital culture, architecture and the city.