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

Name: Smart Cities Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
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ISBN: 9780393349788

ISBN-10: 0393349780

ISBN-13: 9780393349788

Edition: 2014

Authors: Anthony M. Townsend

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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…

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List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/6/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English