Smart cities / Germaine R. Halegoua.

Main entry:

Halegoua, Germaine R., 1979- author.

Title & Author:

Smart cities / Germaine R. Halegoua.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]
©2020

Description:

xvii, 221 pages : black and white illustrations ; 18 cm.

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.

Summary:

"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." -- From product description.

ISBN:

9780262538053 paperback alkaline paper
0262538059 paperback alkaline paper

Subject:

Smart cities.
Cities and towns Effect of technological innovations on.
City planning.
Urban beautification.
Villes intelligentes.
Villes Effets des innovations sur.
Smart City
Technologie

Added entries:

Tidor, Bruce, author of foreword.
MIT Press, publisher.
MIT Press essential knowledge series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 308246
Call No.: BIB 253680
Status: Available

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