Against the smart city (The city is here for you to use Book 1)
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (978 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00FHQ5DBS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 445 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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“Against the smart city” provides an intellectual toolkit for those of us interested in resisting this sterile and unappealing vision, and lays important groundwork for the far more fruitful alternatives to come.PRAISE FOR "AGAINST THE SMART CITY":"Adam Greenfield does for 'urban renewal' in the twenty-first century what Jane Jacobs did for it in the twentieth."- Ian Bogost, Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology."A critical inquiry into the constrained reality of the smart city and its free-floating narratives. He reminds us, like the great urbanists before him, that cities are about people — people who shape their city from the bottom up with their character, agency, independence and yes, intelligence."- Benjamin de la Peña, The Rockefeller Foundation."A cogent debunking of the smart city. Adam Greenfield breaks down the term with wit and clarity, exposing that the smart city may be neither very smart nor very city at all. Adam Greenfield&rsqu
"Cutting through the Hype: Greenfield Enables New Discussions" according to Alexandre Enkerli. Even before finishing reading the book, I could notice changes in the ways people have been talking about the “Smart City”. Not that the concept has been fully discredited. But we've already started the conversation Greenfield makes necessary with this book. Instead of setting a new agenda, this pamphlet p. "We need a language" according to Petri Saarikko. This book is a novel chapter for urban life taken for granted. Going against the prosumer mainstream in the age of total surveillance represents bravery among rest of us who mostly run the urban machine without slightest conscience regarding the complexity and consequence of our digital traces. Mr. Greefield's salty o. A must-read if you're at all interested in whatever smart cities may become Adam Greenfield unpacks the conventional wisdom about "smart cities", much of which has been led by large IT and infrastructure vendors like IBM, Cisco and Siemens, and reminds us in a range of articulate ways that cities' key ingredient and foremost concern is humans how they live, work and play, and how cities have