Smart cities: big data, civic hackers, and the quest for a new utopia

By:

Townsend, Anthony M

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York; WW Norton & Company; 2014Description: 388 pISBN:

9780393349788

Subject(s):

Cities and town-History

DDC classification:

307.76 TOW

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Gandhi Smriti Library	307.76 TOW (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		161095

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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.

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