TY  - BOOK
AU  - Townsend,Anthony M.
TI  - Smart cities: big data, civic hackers, and the quest for a new utopia 
SN  - 9780393082876 (hardcover)
AV  - HT 119 T747s 2013
U1  - 307.76 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - History
KW  - City planning
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Regional planning
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Ciudades y pueblos
KW  - Historia
KW  - Urbanismo
KW  - Innovaciones tecnológicas
KW  - Planificación territorial
KW  - Aspectos económicos
KW  - Tecnologías de la información
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-366) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -