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SMART CITIES - GERMAINE HALEGOUA KARTONIERT (TB)

Key concepts  definitions  examples  and historical contexts for understanding smart cities 
along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits of this approach to urban problems.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. 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
smart-from-the-start cities  retrofitted cities  and social cities 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. Throughout  the
author who has studied smart cities around the world 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. Smartness is a means to an end:
improving the quality of urban life.

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