Townsend, Anthony M.,  1973- <br/><br/>
Smart cities :  big data, civic hackers, and the quest for a new utopia / 
Anthony M. Townsend. 
 - First edition. 
 - xiv, 384 pages ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-366) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780393082876 (hardcover) 0393082873 (hardcover) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cities and towns--History.<br/>City planning--Technological innovations.<br/>Regional planning--Technological innovations.<br/>Technological innovations--Economic aspects.<br/>Information technology--Economic aspects.<br/>Ciudades y pueblos--Historia <br/>Urbanismo --Innovaciones tecnológicas<br/>Planificación territorial --Innovaciones tecnológicas <br/>Innovaciones tecnológicas--Aspectos económicos<br/>Tecnologías de la información --Aspectos económicos
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HT 119  / T747s 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>307.76