Smart Cities: MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
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Over the past 10 years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles and showrooms for the practical application of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and the integration of big data into everyday life. Are smart cities optimized, sustainable, digitally networked solutions to urban problems? Or are they neoliberal, corporate-controlled, undemocratic non-places? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise introduction to smart cities, presenting key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts, along with discussions of both the drawbacks and the benefits of this approach to urban life.
After reviewing current terminology and justifications employed by technology designers, journalists, and researchers, the book describes three models for smart city development and offers examples of each. It covers technologies and methods, including sensors, public wi-fi, big data, and smartphone apps, and discusses how developers conceive of interactions among the built environment, technological and urban infrastructures, citizens, and citizen engagement.
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The criticism that the book raises against smart cities is not convincing
The book surveys software packages and some materials embedded in so-called smart cities. The author criticizes that these are off-the-shelve products instead of being tailor-made according to the suggestions and requirements of the people in each city. But this criticism ignores the fact that off-the-shelve products are much cheaper and much more reliable.
Chivi –
Básico pero bueno
Anastasis Petrou –
The book had the most awful smell when it arrived as if it was stored in a cupboard with some weird smelly preservatives.