Smart cities : big data, civic hackers, and the quest for a new utopia /

We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "Internet of things," and more people live in cities than in the countryside. In Smart Cities, urbanist and technology expert Anthony Townsend t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Townsend, Anthony M., 1973-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2013]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Cities and towns > History. City planning > Technological innovations. Regional planning > Technological innovations. Technological innovations > Economic aspects. Information technology > Economic aspects.

Table of Contents:

Urbanization and ubiquity
The $100 billion jackpot
Cybernetics redux
Cities of tomorrow
The open-source metropolis
Tinkering toward utopia
Have nots
Reinventing city hall
A planet of civic laboratories
Buggy, brittle, and bugged
A new civics for a smart century.