Soft city culture and technology [electronic resource] : the Betaville Project / Carl Skelton.
2013
QA76.575
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Title
Soft city culture and technology [electronic resource] : the Betaville Project / Carl Skelton.
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ISBN
9781461472513 electronic book
1461472512 electronic book
9781461472506
1461472512 electronic book
9781461472506
Published
New York : Springer, [2013?]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 170 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Item Number
10.1007/978-1-4614-7251-3 doi
Call Number
QA76.575
Dewey Decimal Classification
006.7
Summary
Soft City Culture and Technology: The Betaville Project discusses the complete cycle of conception, development, and deployment of the Betaville platform. Betaville is a massively participatory online environment for distributed 3D design and development of proposals for changes to the built environment an experimental integration of art, design, and software development for the public realm. Through a detailed account of Betaville from a Big Crazy Idea to a working "deep social medium", the author examines the current conditions of performance and accessibility of hardware, software, networks, and skills that can be brought together into a new form of open public design and deliberation space, for and spanning and integrating the disparate spheres of art, architecture, social media, and engineering. Betaville is an ambitious enterprise, of building compelling and constructive working relationships in situations where roles and disciplinary boundaries must be as agile as the development process of the software itself. Through a considered account and analysis of the interdependencies between Betaville's project design, development methods, and deployment, the reader can gain a deeper understanding of the potential socio-technical forms of New Soft Cities: blended virtual-physical worlds, whose "public works" must ultimately serve and succeed as massively collaborative works of art and infrastructure.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Background: Waking Up In A New Soft City
Strategy
Development
Deployments
Software infrastructure
Future Roadmaps
Conclusion.
Background: Waking Up In A New Soft City
Strategy
Development
Deployments
Software infrastructure
Future Roadmaps
Conclusion.