END 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Personal Rapid Transit, Urban Sprawl, Cedric Price
11 Jul 2016
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Walking city, 1964: archigram group (ron herron, hypothetical design: potential of machines, city infrastructure not tied to locations. Generator project, 1976: cedric price proposal for gillman corporation, relocatable structures on a permanent grid of foundation pads, programmed by john and julia frazer. Community life: safer to go out at night, places to go: theatres, social gatherings, etc. More effective use of leisure time: easier to read adult education for working classes, demand for more leisure. Knowledge communication and social infrastructure: intellectual capital, social capital. Smart city a strategic device to promote urban performance. Information and communication technology (ict: internet of things, smart phones and mobile devices, super-fast broadband, real time instrumentation. Digital and intelligent city: social and environmental capital. Provide a greater place to live and work. Real-time citizen direct participation: expensive opinion survey, unrepresentative focus groups. Passive data participation: data driven decision making, ex) seoul"s midnight bus rides. Idea spread from twitter to face book: ex) e-park in seattle.
