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Atlas of the Senseable City

Carlo Ratti

Technology & society

Atlas of the Senseable City

By Carlo Ratti, professor of the practice and director of the Senseable City Lab, and Antoine Picon

Yale University Press · 2023

This book explores how the growth of digital mapping, spurred by sensing technologies, is affecting cities and daily lives. It examines how new cartographic possibilities aid urban planners, technicians, politicians, and administrators; how digitally mapped cities could reveal ways to make cities smarter and more efficient; how monitoring urbanites has political and social repercussions; and how the proliferation of open-source maps and collaborative platforms can aid activists and vulnerable populations.

From Summer 2023 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News). Cover image via Google Books.