Table of contents - Special Issue: Urban informatics: decoding urban complexities through data-sciences
Guest Editors: Nimish Biloria
Participatory urban informatics: towards citizen-ability
Marcus FothThe purpose of this paper is to trace how the relationship between city governments and citizens has developed over time with the introduction of urban informatics and smart city…
Towards typogenetic tools for generative urban aesthetics
Manuel MuehlbauerUrban typogenetics investigates the use of machine intelligence for the evaluation of performance measures as a decision support system (DSS) with a focus on urban aesthetics…
Towards a multi-scalar framework for smart healthcare
Dimitra Dritsa, Nimish BiloriaThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of emerging technologies in the promotion of health and well-being at the urban, domestic and bodily scale, through the…
Mapping preferences for the number of built elements
Dheyaa Hussein, Somwrita Sarkar, Peter ArmstrongThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the number of design elements in the context of building facades in urban streetscapes and visual preferences…
Monitoring urban environmental phenomena through a wireless distributed sensor network
Niek Bebelaar, Robin Christian Braggaar, Catharina Marianne Kleijwegt, Roeland Willem Erik Meulmeester, Gina Michailidou, Nebras Salheb, Stefan van der Spek, Noortje Vaissier, Edward VerbreeThe purpose of this paper is to provide local environmental information to raise community’s environmental awareness, as a cornerstone to improve the quality of the built…
Spatio-temporal analysis of trajectories for safer construction sites
Muhammad Arslan, Christophe Cruz, Ana-Maria Roxin, Dominique GinhacThe purpose of this paper is to improve the safety of construction workers by understanding their behaviors on construction sites using spatio-temporal (ST) trajectories.
Modelling walking and cycling accessibility and mobility: The effect of network configuration and occupancy on spatial dynamics of active mobility
Pirouz Nourian, Samaneh Rezvani, Kotryna Valeckaite, Sevil SariyildizThe most sustainable forms of urban mobility are walking and cycling. These modes of transportation are the most environmental friendly, the most economically viable and the most…
A modelling methodology for a solar energy-efficient neighbourhood
Mansoureh Gholami, Majid Mofidi Shemirani, Rima FayazThe purpose of this paper is to present a methodology to quantify the solar energy potential for applying photovoltaic systems and find an efficient geometry for urban blocks to…
ParticipationPlus: Documenting a design process of a media architecture installation in the second digital turn era
M. Hank Haeusler, Luke Hespanhol, Marius HoggenmuellerThe purpose of this paper is to explore through a project the feasibility of testing Carpo’s preposition of the second digital turn. It further argues that if media architecture…
Experimentation at scale: challenges for making urban informatics work
Martin Brynskov, Adriënne Heijnen, Mara Balestrini, Christoph RaetzschThe purpose of this paper is to discuss how experimentation with open Internet of Things data can be institutionalised in an inclusive manner at scale.
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2046-6099Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Dr Farzad Pour Rahimian