Description: 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, Smart Cities explores their motivations, aspirations and shortcomings, offering a new civics for building communities. 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.
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EAN: 9780393349788
UPC: 9780393349788
ISBN: 9780393349788
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Item Length: 20.6 cm
Number of Pages: 416 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
Publisher: Ww Norton & Co
Publication Year: 2014
Subject: Social Sciences
Item Height: 211 mm
Item Weight: 311 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Anthony M. Townsend
Subject Area: Urban Planning
Item Width: 140 mm
Format: Paperback
