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Urbanism on Track.
Title:
Urbanism on Track.
Author:
Van Schaick, J.
ISBN:
9781607502951
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (200 pages)
Contents:
Title page -- Contents -- Tracking and Navigation: The Basics -- Introduction -- The GPS Revolution in Spatial Research -- Tracking Technologies - An Overview -- Application of GPS Data in Geographic Information Systems -- Mobile Pedestrian Navigation Systems - Wayfinding Based on Localisation Technologies -- First Experiments with Tracking -- Tracking Visitors in Public Parks - Experiences with GPS in Denmark -- Spatial Metro - Tracking Pedestrians in Historic City Centres -- Mobile Surveys -- Our Daily Dance in Time and Space -- Integrating Tracking into Urbanism and Spatial Planning Research -- A Method for Deriving Trip Destinations and Modes for GPS-Based Travel Surveys -- Tracking Down the Effects of Travel Demand Policies -- Collaborative Map Generation - Survey and Architecture Proposal -- Tracking Research - An Agenda for Urban Design and Planning -- About the Authors.
Abstract:
Tracking technologies such as GPS, mobile phone tracing, video and RFID monitoring are rapidly becoming part of daily life. Technological progress offers huge possibilities for studying human activity patterns in time and space in new ways. Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) held an international expert meeting in early 2007 to investigate the current and future possibilities and limitations of the application of tracking technologies in urban design and spatial planning. This book is the result of that expert meeting. "Urbanism on Track" introduces the reader to the basics of tracking research and provides insight into its advantages above other research techniques. But it also shows the bottlenecks in gathering and processing data and applying research results to real-life problems. "Urbanism on Track" showcases tracking experiments in urban studies, planning and design - from pedestrian navigation in Austria to Danish field tests, from TU Delft's Spatial Metro project to MIT's Real Time Rome and last but not least the Sense of the City project realized in Eindhoven. "Urbanism on Track" discusses the relevance of tracking for policy making, the possibilities of a new cartography and the implementation of tracking technologies in urban design and planning. This makes "Urbanism on Track" a unique book, setting the agenda for the structural embedment of research using tracking technologies in urbanism.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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