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City Knowledge

(the concepts explained)

 

Readings

City Knowledge is not a “program” but a concept and an approach.

Here are some links that may help you, read them in the order listed:

 

Most Recent (Birth Certificates -- futuristic – example: roads):  Carrera, Fabio and J. Ferreira Jr.. (2007).  “The Future of Spatial Data Infrastructures:  Capacity-building for the Emergence of Municipal SDIs”.  International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research.  Fall 2007.

Most Detailed (the source of ALL concepts relating to City Knowledge – read Parts I, IV and V, skim the others ): Carrera, Fabio.  (2004).  City Knowledge: An emergent information infrastructure for sustainable urban maintenance, management and planning, Doctoral Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

Plan-Demanded, Plan-Ready and Plan-Demanding (big picture – related to planning): Carrera, F. and L. Hoyt. (2006).  “From Plan-Demanded Data to Plan-Ready Information: A Rationale for Comprehensive Urban Knowledge Infrastructures”.  Journal of Urban Technology 13 (2) 3-23.

First Cut at the Premises (examples: energy consumption and CO2 emissions): Carrera, Fabio and A. Hewitt (2006).  “The Premises of City Knowledge: a middle-out approach toward sustainable municipal data management” in proceedings of the  25th Urban Data Management Symposium, May 15-17 2006, Aalborg, Denmark.

Data Farming through Maintenance (example: tree maintenance): Carrera, Fabio.  (2005). “Growing the Tree of Knowledge: extracting informational returns from the maintenance of trees in Cambridge, Massachusetts” in proceedings of the First International Conference on the Management of Urban Maintenance, Venice, Italy, April 2005.

 

 

Concepts

Publications

Presentations

Applications

Reports

Links

MIT Dissertation

Journals

MIT

LOUIS

Venice

Redfish

Premises

conferences

Santa Fe

Data Farming Matrix

Boston

Birth Certificates

working papers

UCL

Venice 2.0

London

 

Suggested readings

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Prepared by:  Fabio Carrera

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