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

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

An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future.

From Beijing to Boston, cities are deploying smart technologyâ€”sensors embedded in streets and subways, Wi-Fi broadcast airports and green spacesâ€”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 actorsâ€”entrepreneurs, mayors, philanthropists, and software developersâ€”at work in shaping the new urban frontier.
Country USA
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-09-30
Format Kindle eBook
EANs 9780393241532

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