Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

Smart Cities

Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

2013 • 400 pages

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"In Smart Cities, urbanist and technology expert Anthony Townsend takes a broad historical look at the forces that have shaped the planning and design of cities and information technologies from the rise of the great industrial cities of the nineteenth century to the present."--www.Amazon.com.

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This book has some great insights, and is littered with smart pull quotes, but overall, was a slog to get through. Like a lot of nonfiction today, its hard to justify its existence as a full book, and not just a few blog posts.

January 4, 2014