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This wiki article explained the terminology “urban computing” from: 1) where and how this term first introduced to the public 2) the difference between urban computing/technology/infrastructure and urban informatics; 3) offered several applications and examples from different domains - cultural archiving, energy consumption, health, social interaction, transportation and environment.

Also, this article provided 4 external links (Ubiquitous computing, Urban informatics, Smart city and Ingress) in order to help better understand urban computing.

I have to say the content within this article is indeed related to the topic, but under a poor content organization. For instance, the external links might be better explained how these links related to this article? NingZou (talk) 17:46, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

In terms of the structure of this article, it includes much good content which covered many viewpoints, but still, it is quite incomplete in many areas.

First, it has a lead section that summarizes the topic, provides and prepare the readers with some general information to read the following sections. However, the lead section lacks to: provide a brief definition of what is urban computing; does not have a very good connection to the following “application and example” sections. In addition, the three paragraphs have redundant content especially the first and third paragraph, thus part of them need to be shortened.

Second, the “application and example” section starts with a brief definition of the urban computing, which I think should bring up in the lead section. The viewpoints in the second section covered many dimensions and each one is well represented, but the paragraph of “transportation” and “environment” has much richer information than other paragraphs especially provide the detailed information on the research examples. In addition, these two paragraphs are much more connected with the main topic with the first sentence arguing that they are the major application of the urban computing. However, other paragraphs do not have such tight connections to the main topic and they should also include the detailed research example information.

Third, the whole article missed some important element, especially on the side of the “computing”. There should have one section introduce what computational methods are available to use and how that application is used through computational method.Ang li (talk) 17:43, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This article read like an encyclopedia article. First, the field that urban computing is in and its relevant areas are introduced. Then, the author briefly presents the origin of urban computing and distinguishes the differences between urban computing and urban informatics by referencing Marcus Foth’s research study. All these are objectively illustrated. Next, the author introduces the concept of urban computing by using Yu Zheng’s study and provides the applications and examples, such as cultural archiving, Energy consumption, and transportation.

All the statements use an indicative mood, not a persuasive essay. However, the only thing needs to be mentioned is that this article does not mention the negative elements about this topic. For instance, urban computing can help improve the quality of people’s life, but it also involves other issues, such as privacy issues and cost. Therefore, the negative sides should be included in this article.Sunnyxiao2017 (talk) 17:43, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ang li (talk) 17:38, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Among internal references to other wikipedia articles, the page of “Elizabeth goodman” does not exist. Among external references that contain hyperlink, most of them are working fine. However, some links such as ref no. 10 (https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/signpost/cc.html) is outdated or moved. Also, about half the references do not have any hyperlinks.[12,13,16,17,19-23] Except the first paragraph of the subsection “environment” which lacks the appropriate citation, almost all of the statements and claims supported by one or more external references. Also, there are some technical terms like GPS, HVAC, loop sensors that a reader could be unfamiliar with. One improvement could be linking these terms to their corresponding wikipedia articles.

Sdjavadi (talk) 17:46, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]