Urban Operating Systems: Diagramming the City.
A set of software/hardware packages developed by IT companies for the urban market is transforming the way in which cities are imagined and configured. These urban operating systems (Urban OS) embody important presumptions about what constitutes appropriate knowledge and forms of decision making, po...
| Published in: | International Journal of Urban & Regional Research Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 84 - 104 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jan2017
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