Smart cities
Over the past ten 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. Are smart cities optimized, sustainable, digitally networked solutions to urban problems? Or are they neoliberal, corporate-controlled, undemocratic non-places? This volume 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. The author argues that smart city developers should work more closely with local communities, recognizing their preexisting relationship to urban place and realizing the limits of technological fixes
Bibliographic Information
| Format: | Book |
|---|---|
| Author: | Halegoua, Germaine R., 1979- |
| Subject: |
Smart cities Cities and towns |
| Publication Year: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020] |
| ISBN: | 9780262538053 0262538059 |
| Series: | The MIT Press essential knowledge series |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-208) and index. An introduction to smart cities -- Models for smart city development -- Smart city technologies -- Citizen input and engagement -- Future directions for smart cities. |
| Course: |
GED214 |
Availability at HKSYU Library
| Location | Call number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| English Book (4/F) | 307.760285 HAL 2020 | Available |