Tomorrow’s Cities: Towards livable cities with lower car densities

Towards a social approach to digital cities

The paper discusses the strategy followed in a digital cities project named Gaia Digital. This project is an ongoing threeyear project sponsored by the Portugal Digital Initiative, within the Information Society operation program framework. It provides a digital city counterpart for Vila Nova de Gaia, a Portuguese town with around 288.000 inhabitants, considering 2001 figures. The Gaia Digital ...

Towards a new political project for cities

Migrating Cities

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The Information Architecture of Cities the Information Architecture of Cities

Cities can be viewed as information architecture systems. Here, ‘architecture’ is used in the sense of computer architecture – it refers not to the design of buildings, but to how the components of a complex system interact. Information exchange includes the movement of people and goods, personal contact and interactions, telecommunications, as well as visual input from the environment. Informa...

Capital cities: a taxonomy of capital accounts for knowledge cities

The urban experience " An inhabited place of greater size, population, or importance than a town or village " is the Merriam-Webster Dictionary entry for " city ". Most definitions, unless referring to very particular usages (e.g.: The City as London's financial district), convey the concept of a status granted to a relatively permanent, organized human settlement. The Chambers Dictionary inclu...