"A city in the making" > exploring urban infrastructures from the Open University

The Open University is having big problems currently:
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The OU has produced a lot of very interesting work over the years in several key areas.

A correspondent sends a poster from the OU outlining nine themes on "A city in the making": 

A free poster exploring urban infrastructures and how cities are made

Cities depend on circulations: of people, materials, goods, energy, and information. It is urban infrastructures that make those circulations possible.

Such infrastructures include networks of transportation, communication, supply and, increasingly, digital data that allows people and objects to be mobile.

They include, less obviously, the technical standards, bureaucratic systems, and regulatory governance that allows such networks to function.

The images and words on this poster offer some ways of thinking about the different forms this shaping can take with the intention of drawing your attention to how, when, where and why cities are never finished and always in the making.

Download your free poster, 'A City in the Making' - OpenLearn - Open University
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It's about 'smart cities' and 'smart planning':
Tag: smart cities - OpenLearn - Open University
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