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The Social Call

  1. Valentina Croci

Article first published online: 6 MAR 2008

DOI: 10.1002/ad.658

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Architectural Design

Architectural Design

Special Issue: Versatility and Vicissitude

Volume 78, Issue 2, pages 138–141, March/April 2008

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Croci, V. (2008), The Social Call. Archit Design, 78: 138–141. doi: 10.1002/ad.658

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  1. Issue published online: 6 MAR 2008
  2. Article first published online: 6 MAR 2008

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Keywords:

  • mobile telephone technologies;
  • The Senseable City Lab at MIT;
  • Carlo Ritti;
  • Real Time Rome;
  • Wiki City Rome;
  • Roman Public Transportation Authority (ATAC);
  • Samarcanda Taxi Company;
  • ‘erlang’;
  • ‘electronic signatures’;
  • ‘activity coefficients’;
  • ‘location and time sensitive’ system;
  • Estonia;
  • Positium LBS;
  • Voronoi polygons;
  • instrument of territorial management

Abstract

Every time you text or call from your mobile phone, you may be unknowingly providing essential data that is being captured for public or commercial research. Valentina Croci describes how The Senseable City Lab at MIT and the Estonian group Positium LBS with the Department of Geography at the University of Tartu have been developing projects that enable us to sense the city, dynamically mapping social movement. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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