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Competing urban visions and the shaping of the digital city

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where he is the director of the MSc programme in Digital Architecture, a member of the Architectural Informatics (AI) research group, and an associate member of the Global Urbanism Research Unit (GURU). He has previously worked as a lecturer at the Bartlett School of the Built Environment, University College London, as a research fellow in the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), UCL, and as a research associate in the Construction Informatics group at Newcastle University. He has also been member of the Centre for Urban Technology (CUT) at Newcastle University. His main research interest is studying the relationships between the emergence of the “information society” and the ways we imagine, conceive, represent, and manage buildings and cities.

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Aurigi, A. Competing urban visions and the shaping of the digital city. Know Techn Pol 18, 12–26 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12130-005-1013-z

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