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Key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits of this approach to urban problems.Over the past ten years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles and showrooms for the practical application of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and the integration of big data into everyday life. Are smart cities optimized, sustainable, digitally networked solutions to urban problems? Or are they neoliberal, corporate-controlled, undemocratic non-places? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise introduction to smart cities, presenting key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts, along with discussions of both the drawbacks and the...ISBN : 9780262538053

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Halegoua, Germaine
Publisher
MIT Press; The MIT Press
Published
2022
Language
EN
ISBN
9780262356824
Category
science
Subjects
Political Science, Computer Science, Architecture
Rating
4.1 / 5 (52 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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