The Kind of Problem a City Is: New Perspectives on the Nature of Cities from Complex Systems Theory

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1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 4
3. Introduction 6
4. Data – Source and Collection
5. Catching the World’s Eyes 18
6. Hubcab – Exploring the Benefits of Shared Taxi Services 28
7. Data Availability / Data Relevance: Evaluating Real- Time Urban Information Usage in Singapore 40
8. Tracking Waste to Reduce Waste 52
9. New York Talk Exchange: Revealing Urban Dynamics through the Global Telecommunications Network 65
10. Representation – Models and Visualization
11. The City as a Digital Public Space – Notes for the Design of Live Urban Data Platforms 82
12. City Portraits and Caricatures 97
13. Computational Models of Mobility: A Perspective from Mobile Phone Data 110
14. Seeing the City through Data / Seeing Data through the City 125
15. Places – Implications for Design
16. Networks of the Built Environment 144
17. How Polycentric Are Our Cities? 160
18. The Kind of Problem a City Is: New Perspectives on the Nature of Cities from Complex Systems Theory 168
19. Digital Approach to Regional Delineation 180
20. Biographies 191