Digital Cities: London's Future

The Digital Cities: London´s Future exhibition and series of events (Digital Tools for Urban Design and Virtual Tools for Creating our Built Environment) are coming to and end leaving an online catalogue behind them. The tools and techniques for planning, organisation and governance of showcased in London’s Future reveals a fascination for the digital geographical data and 3D models that seems to completely overshadow the human and social layers of the digital cities. For instance, the catalogue on Digital Cities: data and democracy contains only a couple of images with actual human being and one of them to featuring “people watching” as an example of human interaction with the physical phenomenon of our city. Sigh.

Relation to my thesis: There are certainly additional tools and techniques that help planners and designers exploit the resources of digital cities.