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

Townsend, Anthony M.

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ISBN 10: 0393082873 ISBN 13: 9780393082876

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2013

Riassunto

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 cities of the nineteenth century to the present. A century ago, the telegraph and the mechanical tabulator were used to tame cities of millions. Today, cellular networks and cloud computing tie together the complex choreography of mega-regions of tens of millions of people.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.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.

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Our cities are in the first act of an unprecedented technodrama. At stake is nothing less than the survival of our urban species. Combining technological sophistication, deep humanity, and an urban planner's sensitivity to the nuances of places, Smart Cities is an essential guide to understanding the technologies changing urban life. --Andrew Blum, author of Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet

L'autore:

Anthony Townsend is a Research Director at the Silicon Valley-based Institute for the Future and a Senior Research Fellow at New York University's Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management. Author website: www.anthonymobile.com Twitter: @anthonymobile

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0393082873
• ISBN 13: 9780393082876
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 384