Test-Bed Urbanism
Orit Halpern, Jesse LeCavalier, Nerea Calvillo, Wolfgang Pietsch · Public Culture · 2013
This essay interrogates the new forms of experimentation with urban territory emerging as a result of ubiquitous computing infrastructures. We label these protocols “test-bed urbanism.” Smart, sentient, stupid, and speculative all at once, these new methods for spatial development are changing the form, function, economy, and administration of urban life.