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First publish date: 2018
Authors: Gregory Smithsimon
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📘 Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "Internet of things," and more people live in cities than in the countryside. 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. A century ago, the telegraph and the mechanical tabulator were used to tame cities of millions. Today, cellular networks and cloud computing tie together the complex choreography of mega-regions of tens of millions of people. In response, cities worldwide are deploying technology to address both the timeless challenges of government and the mounting problems posed by human settlements of previously unimaginable size and complexity. In Chicago, GPS sensors on snow plows feed a real-time "plow tracker" map that everyone can access. In Zaragoza, Spain, a "citizen card" can get you on the free city-wide Wi-Fi network, unlock a bike share, check a book out of the library, and pay for your bus ride home. In New York, a guerrilla group of citizen-scientists installed sensors in local sewers to alert you when stormwater runoff overwhelms the system, dumping waste into local waterways. As technology barons, entrepreneurs, mayors, and an emerging vanguard of civic hackers are trying to shape this new frontier, Smart Cities considers the motivations, aspirations, and shortcomings of them all while offering a new civics to guide our efforts as we build the future together, one click at a time. -- Provided by publisher.

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📘 International Library of Psychology
 by Routledge


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📘 Human nature and the social order


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📘 The new urban frontier
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¿Qué está ocurriendo en los centros urbanos y en muchos otros barrios históricos de las ciudades de Europa, Norteamérica y otros continentes? ¿Por qué se ha producido esa oleada de operaciones de regeneración urbana con resultados tan extremadamente chic? ¿Se puede dar por terminado este proceso en el marco de la actual crisis financiero-inmobiliaria? ¿Qué supone la remodelación de los centros urbanos para la gente que vive en los mismos? Este libro, convertido ya en el estudio clásico sobre lagentrificación, revela con notable lucidez la fuertedependencia de los procesos de transformación urbana de las dinámicas de acumulación de capital sobre el territorio. Ajeno a toda complacencia con los gustos y estilos de vida de clase media, que normalmente justifican las políticas pro-gentrificación, Smith muestra con crudeza sus obvios efectos sociales: desplazamiento de la población con menores recursos, banalización y musealización de los centros urbanos, subordinación de las políticas urbanas al beneficio de promotores y entidades financieras, segregación espacial, criminalización de la pobreza y de las personas sin hogar, etc. En este terreno su análisis no sólo es convergente con movimientos como la okupación y la democratización del acceso a la vivienda, sino también extremadamente útil para cualquier aproximación que reivindique el derecho a la ciudad.

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