Anthony M. Townsend

Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future.

From Beijing to Boston, cities are deploying smart technologysensors embedded in streets and subways, Wi-Fi broadcast airports and green spacesto address the basic challenges faced by massive, interconnected metropolitan centers. In Smart Cities, Anthony M. Townsend documents this emerging futuristic landscape while considering the motivations, aspirations, and shortcomings of the key actorsentrepreneurs, mayors, philanthropists, and software developersat work in shaping the new urban frontier.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393241532
• Artikelnr.: 59589393

Autorenporträt

Anthony M. Townsend is the author of Ghost Road and Smart Cities, and the president and founder of Star City Group, a strategic foresight and urban planning studio. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.