Description
From Beijing to Boston, cities are deploying smart technology--sensors embedded in streets and subways, Wi-Fi broadcast airports and green spaces--to 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 actors--entrepreneurs, mayors, philanthropists, and software developers--at work in shaping the new urban frontier.
Author: Anthony M. Townsend
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 10/06/2014
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780393349788
ISBN10: 0393349780
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Public Policy | City Planning & Urban Development
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban
- Technology & Engineering | Social Aspects