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Waste is information : infrastructure legibility and governance / Dietmar Offenhuber ; foreword by Carlo Ratti.
Author
Offenhuber, Dietmar
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
Description
x, 270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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Engineering Library - Stacks
TD793 .O45 2017
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Subject(s)
Refuse and refuse disposal
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Planning
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Refuse and refuse disposal
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Citizen participation
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Municipal services
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Planning
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Case studies
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Refuse and refuse disposal
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Philosophy
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City planning
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Author of foreword
Ratti, Carlo
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Case studies
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Series
Infrastructures series
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Infrastructures Series
Summary note
The relationship between infrastructure governance and the ways we read and represent waste systems, examined through three waste tracking and participatory sensing projects.Waste is material information. Landfills are detailed records of everyday consumption and behavior; much of what we know about the distant past we know from discarded objects unearthed by archaeologists and interpreted by historians. And yet the systems and infrastructures that process our waste often remain opaque. In this book, Dietmar Offenhuber examines waste from the perspective of information, considering emerging practices and technologies for making waste systems legible and how the resulting datasets and visualizations shape infrastructure governance. He does so by looking at three waste tracking and participatory sensing projects in Seattle, Sao Paulo, and Boston.Offenhuber expands the notion of urban legibility -- the idea that the city can be read like a text -- to introduce the concept of infrastructure legibility. He argues that infrastructure governance is enacted through representations of the infrastructural system, and that these representations stem from the different stakeholders' interests, which drive their efforts to make the system legible. The Trash Track project in Seattle used sensor technology to map discarded items through the waste and recycling systems; the Forager project looked at the informal organization processes of waste pickers working for Brazilian recycling cooperatives; and mobile systems designed by the city of Boston allowed residents to report such infrastructure failures as potholes and garbage spills.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Ntroduction: Waste is information
Legibility
Informality
Participation
Conclusion: A case for accountability-oriented design.
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ISBN
9780262036733 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
0262036738 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
LCCN
2017000879
OCLC
971893149
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