Seeing Urban Technology: Legibility, Politics, and Action

Harvard GSD

Seeing Urban Technologies asks how planners and designers can see, understand, and shape urban technologies: the data-driven, sociotechnical infrastructure through which cities are planned, operated, and governed, from autonomous mobility to the algorithmic management of energy grids and real estate portfolios. These systems produce enormous public consequences in contemporary cities, increasingly influencing how power, access, risk, and resources are distributed. Yet their workings can be…