Programmable Cities: Using Roboat to Create a responsive Autonomous Infrastructure in Amsterdam
<p>Cities emerged more than 5000 years ago and have always been dynamic creations whose populations continually interact with the artefacts of built form that are designed to enable them to function as places of exchange and social interaction. Until the industrial revolution, which began in Europe in the middle of the 18th century, cities were dominated by continual adaptation to new technologies generating high rates of growth. Innovations were introduced, including steam power, which allowed national transportation networks, seen in Figure 1, to be developed worldwide. Infrastructure and networks evolved, enabling populations to respond quickly and effectively to change from within and without (O’Brien, 1983). Cities then were not necessarily prosperous, but they were highly responsive to human needs. Individuals could move quite fluently, despite technological limits on how far they could travel. The built form that emerged reflected the unself-conscious architecture that was well adapted to the way people moved and communicated prior to the machine age.</p>
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