Smart Cities Reality or Fiction [Hardcover]

The intelligence of a city is the capacity to learn: to learn the past, its history and the culture of its territory. Unlike the smart city, we do not build a city from scratch and there is nothing, there is no smart city standard car intelligence is measured this ability to fit into a territorial dynamic, a story and a culture. Continuous learning through instantaneous feedback provides the digital to understand and map the urban system and driver.

Foreword ix

Introduction xv

Chapter 1. What Do We Mean by “Smart City” and Where Does This Idea Come From? 1

1.1. Not-so-smart smart cities! 3

1.2. The smoke and mirrors of smart cities 6

1.3. Other mirrors for other smoke: cities of the creative classes 12

1.4. So what is a “smart city”? 17

Chapter 2. The Challenges of Urban Development in the Context of the Third Industrial Revolution 21

2.1. The demographic and economic challenges: toward a change in economic model 21

2.2. Geopolitical challenges: the polar shift in development in favor of the south-west and the different strategies among industrialized and emerging countries 26

2.3. Energy transfer: the fossil fuel curse is not about to disappear.33

2.4. The six breakthroughs in urban development based on smart cities 37

Chapter 3. What Makes a City Smart? 43

3.1. Lessons from medieval cities 44

3.1.1. Architect-less cities? 45

3.1.2. How do cities become unintelligent? 49

3.2.A city is a system of life 52

3.3.Smart territory 54

3.3.1.Territory: an immaterial asset 54

3.3.2.The territory seclÃ