Smart about cities : visualising the challenge for 21st century urbanism : "we need a globally networked urbanism" / Maarten Hajer and Ton Dassen (eds.).

Title & Author:

Smart about cities : visualising the challenge for 21st century urbanism : "we need a globally networked urbanism" / Maarten Hajer and Ton Dassen (eds.).

Publication:

Rotterdam : Nai010 Publishers ; [Den Haag] : PBL Publishers, [2014]
©2014

Description:

183 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
On being smart about cities: seven considerations for a new urban planning & design / Maarten Hajer -- Demography / Arjan Harbers -- Air / Frank Van Rijn -- Water / Arjan Harbers -- Food / Emma Westerduin -- Biota / Maarten Baas -- Mobility / Arjan Harbers -- Cargo / Kersten Nabielek -- Building materials / Hans van Amsterdam -- Waste / Kersten Nabielek -- Energy / Anton van Hoorn.

Summary:

Current discussions on urban planning regularly invoke the concept of the smart city-a city based on innovative urban planning, which itself is based on "smart" technologies that are supposed to make cities safer, cleaner and more efficient. But is this actually improving cities? Smart about Cities argues for "smart urban planning" instead of an uncritical embrace of the smart city. Smart urban planning tackles what twentieth-century urban planning forgot-the metabolism of cities, the incoming and outgoing flows that connect urban life with the natural world. Key questions are visualized in 50 infographics: what do cities live on? How much water, food and construction material do they use? What amount of those materials do they dispose of? This book makes an appeal for "global network urban planning" in which technology is not a panacea but is instead anchored in social innovation.

ISBN:

9789462081482 (pbk.)
9462081484 (pbk.)

Subject:

Cities and towns Forecasting.
Sociology, Urban.
City planning.
Villes Prévision.
Sociologie urbaine.
urban sociology.
Verstädterung
USA
Entwicklungsländer
Industriestaaten

Added entries:

Hajer, Maarten A., 1962- editor.
Dassen, Ton, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289204
Call No.: BIB 231484
Status: Available

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