A cross-section, extending from the most public urban areas such as a street centerline or plaza centroid out to the private spaces and buildings on both sides of the road or public square. The edges and boundaries of public and private spaces are, therefore, a continuum between the two realms meeting through constantly changing shades of privacy and publicity rather than at any clear boundaries of separation.
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Smart Cars, Smart Cities, and Smart Sharing: The Changing Nature of Urban Public Spaces
Celen Pasalar (North Carolina State University, USA), George D. Hallowell (North Carolina State University, USA), and Yanhua Lu (North Carolina State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 27
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3507-3.ch003
Abstract
Streets, plazas, and parks are important components of a city that play a key role in affording socio-cultural, political, and economic activities for the benefit of society. The physical nature of these urban spaces facilitates sharing of resources, infrastructures, good, services, experiences, and capabilities. Recent socio-economic and technological changes have resulted in a new generation of city design and planning paradigms shifting the way that urban public and semi-public forms and spaces are designed, managed, and used. This chapter addresses the foundational changes brought by smart, or autonomous (AV), vehicles; smart city technologies; and the business models and associated technologies of sharing. The primary goal is to examine how these three socio-economic and technological changes may influence the use of current and future urban public space. It further informs designers on how urban spaces can provide opportunities to create new relationships of use and engaging public experiences through technology.