Smart cities : big data, civic hackers, and the quest for a new utopia
By: Townsend, Anthony M
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BookPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c2014.Description: xiv, 388 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9780393349788Subject(s): Cities and towns -- History | City planning -- Technological innovations | Regional planning -- Technological innovations | Technological innovations -- Economic aspects | Information technology -- Economic aspects | Innovations technologiquesDDC classification: 307.76 TO SM Online resources: Location Map | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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"With a new epilogue"--Cover.
"First published as a Norton paperback 2014"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-370) and index.
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.