My second joint article with Vesa Vihanninjoki, "Moving in the Metropolis: Smart City Solutions and the Urban Everyday Experience" has been published in the edited volume Architecture and the Smart City (eds. Sergio M. Figueiredo, Sukanya Krishnamurthy, Torsten Schroeder, Routledge 2019).
Abstract of the article: "The omnipresence of technology in cities has had an undeniable effect on the urban everyday experience. This experience is increasingly structured by technological objects or constellations of converged technologies. Activities in a city affect how and what technologies are developed but these new and emerging technologies also have an inevitable effect on what is perceived to be the possible sphere of action. The aim of this article is to interpret and understand some of the ways in which new technologies are changing – and have already changed – the way we experience the city. The focus is on those elements of everyday experience that have a clear relation to how the c...
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