Smart Cities
Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
Published on 30. September 2013
400 pages
978-0-393-24153-2 (ISBN)
Description
An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future.
From Beijing to Boston, cities are deploying smart technology—sensors embedded in streets and subways, Wi-Fi broadcast airports and green spaces—to address the basic challenges faced by massive, interconnected metropolitan centers. In Smart Cities, Anthony M. Townsend documents this emerging futuristic landscape while considering the motivations, aspirations, and shortcomings of the key actors—entrepreneurs, mayors, philanthropists, and software developers—at work in shaping the new urban frontier.
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Anthony M. Townsend is the author of Ghost Road and Smart Cities, and the president and founder of Star City Group, a strategic foresight and urban planning studio. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction Urbanization and Ubiquity
- 1 The $100 Billion Jackpot
- 2 Cybernetics Redux
- 3 Cities of Tomorrow
- 4 The Open-Source Metropolis
- 5 Tinkering Toward Utopia
- 6 Have Nots
- 7 Reinventing City Hall
- 8 A Planet of Civic Laboratories
- 9 Buggy, Brittle, and Bugged
- 10 A New Civics for a Smart Century
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Praise for SMART CITIES
- Copyright
