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

by Anthony M. Townsend

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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 takes a broad historical look at the forces that have shaped the planning and design of cities and information technologies from the rise of the great industrial...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0393082873

ISBN13:9780393082876

Release Date:October 2013

Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company

Length:400 Pages

Weight:1.72 lbs.

Dimensions:1.4" x 6.6" x 9.6"

Related Subjects

City Planning & Urban Development Engineering Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Technology Urban

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