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

Townsend has collected fascinating stories of urban renewaland innovation from around the globe and packaged theminto lessons that are neat and digestible[A] timely and necessary guide to this age of the Franken-city.An ambitiously wide-ranging, admirably clear-eyed, and ultimately humanistic guidebook to the connected city.Today, it's not the height of the skyscrapers, but the depth of the code that drives the modern city. Anthony Townsend brilliantly frames the new forces shaping tomorrow's metropolises. ReadOur cities are in the first act of an unprecedented technodrama. At stake is nothing less than the survival of our urban species. Combining technological sophistication, deep humanity, and an urban planner's sensitivity to the nuances of places,[An entertaining history of urban plannings visionaries and villains, the technological breakthroughs and the spectacular failures that brought us to this crossroads.Compelling&Townsend begins a conversation.Anthony Townsends terrific book looks at the historic relationship of urban and industrial development to new technologies.An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future.