Smart Cities by Anthony M Townsend
An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future.
"Less a to-do list than a framework and sensibility, Smart Cities is a timely and necessary guide to this age of the Franken-city" -- Daniel Brook - New York Times Book Review
"Anthony Townsend sifts through the hope and the hype of the latest system upgrade for our growing, and increasingly more elusively managed, metropolises — digital technology — emerging with an ambitiously wide-ranging, admirably clear-eyed, and ultimately humanistic guidebook to the connected city." -- Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
"Today, it's not the height of the skyscrapers, but the depth of the code that drives the modern city. Anthony Townsend brilliantly frames the new forces shaping tomorrow's metropolises. Read Smart Cities and you’ll never look at a skyline or walk down a city block the same way again." -- Andrew Zolli, author of Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back
"Our cities are in the first act of an unprecedented technodrama. At stake is nothing less than the survival of our urban species. Combining technological sophistication, deep humanity, and an urban planner's sensitivity to the nuances of places, Smart Cities is an essential guide to understanding the technologies changing urban life." -- Andrew Blum, author of Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
"Powerful, readable prose." -- Franklyn Carter - NPR
"Of interest to urban planners and designers, tech leaders, and entrepreneurs, Townsend’s globe-hopping study examines the trend toward smart cities while addressing pros and cons, as top-down corporate models develop alongside communitarian and entrepreneurial initiatives….The autobiographical passages and close readings of other scrappy innovators are the most enjoyable part of this impressive survey, which tries to secure democratic impulses amid a new gold rush." -- Publishers Weekly
"Compelling." -- Melanie Moses - Nature
"[Townsend] has written a generous book in clean prose, one that will engage both advanced geeks and cyber-dolts." -- Catherine Tumber - The Nation
"Anthony Townsend sifts through the hope and the hype of the latest system upgrade for our growing, and increasingly more elusively managed, metropolises — digital technology — emerging with an ambitiously wide-ranging, admirably clear-eyed, and ultimately humanistic guidebook to the connected city." -- Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
"Today, it's not the height of the skyscrapers, but the depth of the code that drives the modern city. Anthony Townsend brilliantly frames the new forces shaping tomorrow's metropolises. Read Smart Cities and you’ll never look at a skyline or walk down a city block the same way again." -- Andrew Zolli, author of Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back
"Our cities are in the first act of an unprecedented technodrama. At stake is nothing less than the survival of our urban species. Combining technological sophistication, deep humanity, and an urban planner's sensitivity to the nuances of places, Smart Cities is an essential guide to understanding the technologies changing urban life." -- Andrew Blum, author of Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
"Powerful, readable prose." -- Franklyn Carter - NPR
"Of interest to urban planners and designers, tech leaders, and entrepreneurs, Townsend’s globe-hopping study examines the trend toward smart cities while addressing pros and cons, as top-down corporate models develop alongside communitarian and entrepreneurial initiatives….The autobiographical passages and close readings of other scrappy innovators are the most enjoyable part of this impressive survey, which tries to secure democratic impulses amid a new gold rush." -- Publishers Weekly
"Compelling." -- Melanie Moses - Nature
"[Townsend] has written a generous book in clean prose, one that will engage both advanced geeks and cyber-dolts." -- Catherine Tumber - The Nation
Anthony M. Townsend is the author of Ghost Road and Smart Cities, and the president and founder of Star City Group, a strategic foresight and urban planning studio. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393082876 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393082873 |
| Title | Smart Cities |
| Author | Anthony M Townsend |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2013-11-05 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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