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Pattern Recognition—The Big Smart Transactional City

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The city once understood as homogenous, and static is at the centre of a rapid metamorphosis driven by the nexus of socio-economic, political and technological change. The shift into intangible domains was prophesied in Jean Gottmann's ‘The Coming of the Transactional City’ (1983). Gottmann posits cities as hosting environments for transactional activities, an early observation of ubiquitous information services.

Pattern Recognition focuses on the relationship between virtual applications, transactions, big-data, digital realms and physical spaces in the city, as well as the implications they have on the temporal and permanent patterns of occupation, spaces, typologies etc. It seeks to establish a platform through which virtual (and even real-time) data can be juxtaposed from multiple sources and spatialised.

The project is empowered by a process of data scrapping – where geo-referenced information and data from web-based Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) is extracted into design environments. Here raw information is co-referenced and spatialised.

Through hybridising disparate datasets from public services and private entities who have a vested interest in the city, this convergence offers architects and urban designers an insight into behaviours of cities and networks, all captured through decentralised systems. These can record and reveal patterns, offer new ways of engaging with the contemporary city and an insight into its counterfactual futures.

The paper will present paradigms for the impact and transformation of new economies (sharing and peer-peer economies) on the fabric of the city, focusing on how the shift from ‘ownership’ to ‘access’ has fundamentally co-opted the built environment. They proffer an opportunity to leverage, reassess, and speculate about the future of the city. The research draws from both precedent and design provocation to assess how architecture and urban design is valued in the post-urban, post-critical epoch.

Keywords: API ; BigData ; Liveable ; MediumDesign ; PatternRecognition ; Realtime ; SharingEconomy ; SmartCity ; Transactional ; Urbanism

Hardback ISBN: 9781835950326
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Pattern Recognition—The Big Smart Transactional City
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