ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the fields of urban planning and design and their needs for mastering networked technologies. This is done by discussing what an 'Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Toolbox for urban planners and designers might mean. The toolbox needs to contain hardware technologies such as GPS trackers, CCTV, heat-sensitive cameras, RFID tags, GIS maps, 3D dynamic visualizations and animations, and many other forms of code, software, and hardware. It explains networked technologies as part of a research agenda for the 'programmable city'. It introduces the two institutional settings for mobilities research with a reference to the programmable city research agenda. The chapter addresses the research undertaken at the cross-disciplinary Centre for Mobilities and Urban Studies (C-MUS) as well as in the Research Cluster for Mobility and Tracking Technology (MoTT), both located at Aalborg University, Denmark. C-MUS was set up in 2008 and works across the Faculties of Social, Human, and Technical Sciences.
