Intelligent cities and the taxonomy of cognitive scales

Architectural Design

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 56-65

  Weinstock, Michael ^a   Gharleghi, Mehran ^a  

^a School of Architecture in London   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence'; 'innovation economy'; 'phenomenal consciousness'; 'self aware city'; 'superorganism'; Amsterdam; Angkor Wat; Architectural Association (AA); Cairo; Chicago; collective intelligence; Elif Erdine, Population and Population Density of Cities within the Lower Latitudes; Emergent Technologies and Design (EmTech) programme; Fez; fluctuating internal and external material and metabolic conditions; hydrological systems; intelligent cities; intelligent metering and building systems; Lemire Abdul Halim Chehab and Mohamad Makkouk, The Adaptive and Attentional City; Mekong River; sentience; Shibam; Sydney; US Department of Energy; William Morton Wheeler; Yadz; Yasaman Mousavi and Fatemeh Nasseri; Yu Chen and Qianqian Yu

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880542867     PISSN: 00038504     EISSN: 15542769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ad.1619     Document Type: Article

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