Handbook of research on urban informatics : the practice and promise of the real-time city / edited by Marcus Foth.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section I: Introductory Examinations -- Chapter I. Urbane-ing The City: Examining and Refining the Assumptions behind Urban Informatics / Amanda Williams, Erica Robles, and Paul Dourish -- Chapter II. To Connect and Flow in Seoul: Ubiquitous Technologies, Urban Infrastructure and Everyday Life in the Contemporary Korean City / Jaz Hee-jeong Choi and Adam Greenfield -- Chapter III. Creating an Analytical Lens for Understanding Digital Networks in Urban South Africa / Nancy Odendaal -- Section II: Participation and Deliberation -- Chapter IV. Place Making Through Participatory Planning / Wayne Beyea, Christine Geith, and Charles McKeown -- Chapter V. TexTales: Creating Interactive Forums with Urban Publics / Mike Ananny and Carol Strohecker -- Chapter VI. An Event-driven Community in Washington, DC: Forces that Influence Participation / Jenny Preece -- Chapter VII. Moments and Modes for Triggering Civic Participation at the Urban Level / Fiorella De Cindio, Ines Di Loreto, and Cristian Peraboni -- Section III: Engagement of Urban Communities -- Chapter VIII. Fostering Communities in Urban Multi-cultural Neighbourhoods: Some Methodological Reflections / Michael Veith, Kai Schubert, and Volker Wulf -- Chapter IX. Beyond Safety Concerns: On the Practical Applications of Urban Neighbourhood Video Cameras / Victor M. Gonzalez, Kenneth L. Kraemer, and Luis A. Castro -- Chapter X. The Figmentum Project: Appropriating Information and Communication Technologies to Animate our Urban Fabric / Colleen Morgan and Debra Polson -- Chapter XI. Voices from Beyond: Ephemeral Histories, Locative Media and the Volatile Interface / Barbara Crow, Michael Longford, Kim Sawchuk, and Andrea Zeffiro -- Chapter XII. Embedding an Ecology Notion in the Social Production of Urban Space / Helen Klaebe, Barbara Adkins, Marcus Foth, and Greg Hearn -- Section IV: Location, Navigation and Space -- Chapter XIII. Cityware: Urban Computing to Bridge Online and Real-world Social Networks / Vassilis Kostakos and Eamonn O'Neill -- Chapter XIV. Information Places: Navigating Interfaces Between Physical and Digital Space / Katharine S. Willis and Jens Geelhaar -- Chapter XV. A Visual Approach to Locative Urban Information / Viktor Bedö -- Chapter XVI. Navigation Becomes Travel Scouting: The Augmented Spaces of Car Navigation Systems / Tristan Thielmann -- Chapter XVII. QyoroView: Creating a Large-Scale Street View as User-generated Content / Daisuke Tamada and Hideyuki Nakanishi -- Chapter XVIII. Virtual Cities for Simulating Smart Urban Public Spaces / Hideyuki Nakanishi, Toru Ishida, and Satoshi Koizumi -- Chapter XIX. The Neogeography of Virtual Cities: Digital Mirrors into a Recursive World / Andrew Hudson-Smith, Richard Milton, Joel Dearden, and Michael Batty -- Section V: Wireless and Mobile Culture -- Chapter XX. Codespaces: Community Wireless Networks and the Reconfiguration of Cities / Laura Forlano -- Chapter XXI. Home is where the hub is? Wireless infrastructures and the nature of domestic culture in Australia / Katrina Jungnickel and Genevieve Bell -- Chapter XXII. Mapping the MIT Campus in Real-time Using WiFi / Andres Sevtsuk, Sonya Huang, Francesco Calabrese, and Carlo Ratti -- Chapter XXIII. Supporting Community With Location-Sensitive Mobile Applications / John M. Carroll and Craig H. Ganoe -- Chapter XXIV. From Social Butterfly to Urban Citizen: The Evolution of Mobile Phone Practice / Christine Satchell -- Section VI: The Not So Distant Future -- Chapter XXV. u-City: The Next Paradigm of Urban Development / Jong-Sung Hwang -- Chapter XXVI. Urban Informatics in China: Exploring the Emergence of the Chinese City 2.0 / Dan Shang, Jean-François Doulet, and Michael Keane -- Chapter XXVII. WikiCity: Real-time Location-sensitive Tools for the City / Francesco Calabrese, Kristian Kloeckl, and Carlo Ratti -- Chapter XXVIII. Citizen Science: Enabling Participatory Urbanism / Eric Paulos, RJ Honicky, and Ben Hooker -- Chapter XXIX. Extreme informatics: toward the de-satuated city / Mark Shepard -- Afterword. Urban informatics and social ontology / Roger J. Burrows.

"This book exposes research accounts which seek to convey an appreciation for local differences, for the empowerment of people and for the human-centred design of urban technology"--Provided by publisher.