Anthony M. Townsend - Smart Cities - Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

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Smart_Cities.aspx.More Praise for SMART CITIES

“An ambitiously wide-ranging, admirably clear-eyed, and ultimately humanistic guidebook to the connected city.”

—Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic

“Compelling Townsend begins a conversation.”

—Melanie E. Moses, Nature

“Anthony Townsends terrific book looks at the historic relationship of urban and industrial development to new technologies.”

—Architecture Today

“Powerful, readable prose.”

—Franklyn Cater, NPR

“Townsends interest in smart cities is more than merely technological: he offers an entertaining history of urban plannings visionaries and villains, the technological breakthroughs and the spectacular failures that brought us to this crossroads.”

—Tim Smedley, New Scientist

“How tomorrows open spaces evolve cannot be known but armed with this book, the reader will be bang up to date with who’s who in the smart city boom, and what’s happening where”

—Engineering and Technology magazine

“Although the omnipresent surveillance that accompanies this interconnectivity may make some readers nervous, Townsend persuasively demonstrates how ubiquitous information resources can provide more protection, as it did in the Boston marathon bombing case, and facilitate a more comfortable, less stress- inducing city-living experience.”

—Carl Hays, Booklist

“A realistic if dry vision of tomorrow’s new breed of cities ” —Discover

“Authoritative, information-packed must-read for urban policy-makers” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“Readers of social and urban issues alike will find this a fascinating consideration of smart technology’s changes” —Midwest Book Review

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Hardcover: 400 pages

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (October 7, 2013)