Townsend, Anthony M., 1973-
Smart cities : big data, civic hackers, and the quest for a new utopia Anthony M. Townsend - New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c2014. - xiv, 388 p. ; 21 cm.
"With a new epilogue"--Cover. "First published as a Norton paperback 2014"--Title page verso.
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.
In response, cities worldwide are deploying technology to address both the timeless challenges of government and the mounting problems posed by human settlements of previously unimaginable size and complexity. In Chicago, GPS sensors on snow plows feed a real-time "plow tracker" map that everyone can access. In Zaragoza, Spain, a "citizen card" can get you on the free city-wide Wi-Fi network, unlock a bike share, check a book out of the library, and pay for your bus ride home. In New York, a guerrilla group of citizen-scientists installed sensors in local sewers to alert you when stormwater runoff overwhelms the system, dumping waste into local waterways.
9780393349788
2015295920
Cities and towns--History
City planning--Technological innovations
Regional planning--Technological innovations
Technological innovations--Economic aspects
Information technology--Economic aspects
Innovations technologiques
307.76 TO SM
Smart cities : big data, civic hackers, and the quest for a new utopia Anthony M. Townsend - New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c2014. - xiv, 388 p. ; 21 cm.
"With a new epilogue"--Cover. "First published as a Norton paperback 2014"--Title page verso.
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.
In response, cities worldwide are deploying technology to address both the timeless challenges of government and the mounting problems posed by human settlements of previously unimaginable size and complexity. In Chicago, GPS sensors on snow plows feed a real-time "plow tracker" map that everyone can access. In Zaragoza, Spain, a "citizen card" can get you on the free city-wide Wi-Fi network, unlock a bike share, check a book out of the library, and pay for your bus ride home. In New York, a guerrilla group of citizen-scientists installed sensors in local sewers to alert you when stormwater runoff overwhelms the system, dumping waste into local waterways.
9780393349788
2015295920
Cities and towns--History
City planning--Technological innovations
Regional planning--Technological innovations
Technological innovations--Economic aspects
Information technology--Economic aspects
Innovations technologiques
307.76 TO SM