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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Townsend, Anthony M., 1973-     Subjects     Cities and towns -- History.     City planning -- Technological innovations.     Regional planning -- Technological innovations.     Technological innovations -- Economic aspects.     Information technology -- Economic aspects.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Townsend, Anthony M., 1973-       by title:      Smart cities : big d...       by call number:      307.76 T747s     Search the Web     Townsend, Anthony M., 1973-     Cities and towns -- History.     City planning -- Technological innovations.     Regional planning -- Technological innovations.     Technological innovations -- Economic aspects.     Information technology -- Economic aspects.       MARC Display

Smart cities : big data, civic hackers, and the quest for a new utopia / Anthony M. Townsend. by Townsend, Anthony M., 1973- W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2013] Call #: 307.76 T747s Subjects Cities and towns -- History.   City planning -- Technological innovations.   Regional planning -- Technological innovations.   Technological innovations -- Economic aspects.   Information technology -- Economic aspects. ISBN:  9780393082876 (hc.) 0393082873 (hc.) Edition:  First edition. Description:  xiv, 384 pages ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Summary:  "We live in a world where 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 cities of the nineteenth century to the present. 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. As technology barons, entrepreneurs, mayors, and an emerging vanguard of civic hackers are trying to shape this new frontier, Smart Cities considers the motivations, aspirations, and shortcomings of them all while offering a new civics to guide our efforts as we build the future together, one click at a time"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 307.76 T747s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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