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Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
Anthony M. Townsend
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Description for Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
Paperback. An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: JFSG; RPC; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 332.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
331g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393349788
SKU
V9780393349788
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About Anthony M. Townsend
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.
Reviews for Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
"Townsend's interest in smart cities is more than merely technological: he offers an entertaining history of urban planning's visionaries and villains, the technological breakthroughs and the spectacular failures that brought us to this crossroads."
New Scientist "Anthony Townsend's terrific book looks at the historic relationship of urban and industrial development to new technologies."
Architecture Today "How tomorrow's open ... Read more
New Scientist "Anthony Townsend's terrific book looks at the historic relationship of urban and industrial development to new technologies."
Architecture Today "How tomorrow's open ... Read more