Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
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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.
Author: Anthony M. Townsend
Format: Paperback, 416 pages, 140mm x 211mm, 311 g
Published: 2014, WW Norton & Co, United States
Genre: Environment & Planning
Description
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.
Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia