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Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
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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. (2013). Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia. W. W. Norton & Company.

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Anthony M. Townsend. 2013. Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia. W. W. Norton & Company.

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

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      • source: Daniel Brook;New York Times Book Review
      • content: [A] timely and necessary guide to this age of the Franken-city.
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      • source: Sarah Rothbard;Slate
      • content: Townsend has collected fascinating stories of urban renewal and innovation from around the globe and packaged them into lessons that are neat and digestible
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      • source: Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
      • content: Anthony Townsend sifts through the hope and the hype of the latest system upgrade for our growing, and increasingly more elusively managed, metropolises — digital technology — emerging with an ambitiously wide-ranging, admirably clear-eyed, and ultimately humanistic guidebook to the connected city.
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      • source: Franklyn Carter;NPR
      • content: Powerful, readable prose.
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      • content: Of interest to urban planners and designers, tech leaders, and entrepreneurs, Townsend's globe-hopping study examines the trend toward smart cities while addressing pros and cons, as top-down corporate models develop alongside communitarian and entrepreneurial initiatives....The autobiographical passages and close readings of other scrappy innovators are the most enjoyable part of this impressive survey, which tries to secure democratic impulses amid a new gold rush.
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      • content: [Townsend] has written a generous book in clean prose, one that will engage both advanced geeks and cyber-dolts.
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        August 19, 2013
        Technology forecaster Townsend defines a “smart city” as an urban environment “where information technology is combined with infrastructure, architecture, everyday objects, and even our bodies to address social, economic, and environmental problems.” They’re already being made, usually piecemeal but sometimes wholesale (as in planned automated cities like South Korea and Cisco’s somewhat ill-fated Songdo), and involve refashioning old systems like the electricity grid as well as deploying the latest infrastructure—such as the network of radio waves operating our wireless gadgets—and much more. Of interest to urban planners and designers, tech leaders, and entrepreneurs, Townsend’s globe-hopping study examines the trend toward smart cities while addressing pros and cons, as top-down corporate models develop alongside communitarian and entrepreneurial initiatives. Skeptical of the vision and influence of tech giants, Townsend points to smaller stories in making the case that local ingenuity should lead the way, albeit in concert with the corporate innovation and power. The author’s perspective is based partly on direct experience (among other things, he was an organizer, in 2002, of NYCwireless, an open-source group distributing free Wi-Fi access in Manhattan). The autobiographical passages and close readings of other scrappy innovators are the most enjoyable part of this impressive survey, which tries to secure democratic impulses amid a new gold rush. Agent: Zoë Pagnamenta, Zoë Pagnamenta Agency.

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