For years, pundits have trumpeted the earthshattering changes that big data and smart
networks will soon bring to our cities. But what if cities have long been built for intelligence …

Mobile phones are no longer what they used to be. Not only can users connect to the
Internet anywhere and anytime, they can also use their devices to map their precise …

With the majority of the world's population now living in cities, questions about the cultural
and political trajectories of urban societies are increasingly urgent. Media and the City …

Early theories of the internet imagined that individuals would begin living most of their lives
online, decreasing the importance of physical mobility and urban spaces. With the …

Communication has often been understood as a realm of immaterial, insubstantial
phenomena—images, messages, thoughts, languages, cultures, and ideologies—mediating …

Over the past five years, computer-generated images (CGIs) have become commonplace as
a means to market urban redevelopments. To date, however, they have been given …

When it first appeared in English usage in the mid-1920s,“infrastructure” referred to roads,
tunnels, other public works, and permanent military structures. Google's Ngram viewer …

The promise of smart cities is that Big Data and the Internet of Things will transform them into
efficient, productive machines. But the smart city is a rather rational proposition where …

In A Very Old Machine, Sudhir Mahadevan shows how Indian cinema's many origins in the
technologies and practices of the nineteenth century continue to play a vital and broad …

This paper offers a framework for understanding and reflecting upon the various ways that
urban scholars have worked with visual representations of city spaces. It suggests that there …