Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia - Hardcover

Anthony Townsend

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393082873 ISBN 13: 9780393082876

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013

Synopsis

Today more people live in cities than in the countryside, mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones and machines outnumber people on a new Internet of Things. In Smart Cities Anthony Townsend explores the question of what happens when computers take over the city in this era of mass urbanisation and technological ubiquity, taking a look at the people and forces that have transformed the design of cities and information technologies. From the great industrial metropolises of the nineteenth century to today's megacities, new technologies have been invented to address the challenges posed by human settlements of ever-greater size and complexity. As a new generation of technology barons, entrepreneurs, mayors and civic coders shape our future, explores their motivations, aspirations and shortcomings, offering a new civics for building communities.

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Title: Smart Cities( Big Data Civic Hackers and the Quest for a New Utopia) <>Binding: Hardcover <>Author: AnthonyM.Townsend <>Publisher: W.W.Norton&Company

Review:

Our cities are in the first act of an unprecedented technodrama. At stake is nothing less than the survival of our urban species. Combining technological sophistication, deep humanity, and an urban planner's sensitivity to the nuances of places, Smart Cities is an essential guide to understanding the technologies changing urban life. --Andrew Blum, author of Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0393082873
• ISBN 13: 9780393082876
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400