Emergent Technologies

Contemporary cities are witnessing a transformation with the advent of new technologies that are impacting the built environment along with the socio-cultural aspects of urban living. This volume explores how the underlying dynamics of emerging technologies will impact urban planning, design, and living. This edited volume brings together seminal contributions from researchers and academicians that establish a context for understanding and reflecting on the impact of emergent technologies in the socio-spatial and socio-cultural aspects of urban living. Moreover, they do so through case studies that afford an insight into neighborhood planning, contemporary design, and urban digital governance. This volume will help academicians, professionals, policymakers and other key stakeholders develop a new urban agenda, one that enlists emergent technologies to engage, connect, and build sustainable cities. Cities are melting pots of communicative actions between people and cultures. Contemporary cities are the emerging nodal centers of communication that convey a distinct civilizational experience through urban living, forms, patterns, and the built environment. Emergent Technologies: New Media and Urban Life examines the impact of new communication technologies on urban living and outlines changes in socio-spatial relations, network neutrality, the role of information communication in the context of urban public spaces, augmented heritage, digital governance and culture, the role of social media in cities, and the advent of smart cities.