The Smart City in a Digital World.

Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Poet Page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- About the Author -- Acknowledgements -- 1-The World is Urban -- City-States -- Critical Social Science -- Climate Change -- Networks of Cities -- What Makes a City Smart? -- Smart City Patterns -- A Trilogy -- From an Urban Village to a Life in Cities -- Overview of the Book -- Smart City in a Bottle -- Endnotes -- 2-How to Think About Smart Cities -- Stop Using the Term -- The Smart City is About Technology -- The Smart City is About Citizens -- The Smart City is a Space-Time Machine -- The Smart City is a Computer -- The Smart City is a Platform -- Time's Twisted Arrow -- Architecture Without Architects -- Sedentary and Smart -- IBM's Smarter City -- Computer Simulations and Urban Dynamics in the Steel City -- Punch Cards in the City of Angels -- The 1964 New York World's Fair -- From Progressland to Epcot -- The Wired City -- The Technological Sublime -- The Past is not Necessarily Prologue -- 3-City of Technology: Where the Streets Are Paved with Data -- Technology: The Next Internet -- The Internet of Things -- Cloud Computing -- Big Data Analytics -- Smart Transportation, Smart Energy, Smart Communication -- Big Savings -- Command and Control in the Smart City -- Google Toronto and it Comes Up New York -- Don't Google This -- 4-Who Governs? State-Driven Smart Cities -- Three Types of Governance -- Government-Led Smart Cities -- High-tech China: What's Your Social Credit Score? -- Modi's India: Let 100 Smart Cities Bloom -- 5-Who Governs? Private Smart Cities -- But First, A Word About Disney -- Amazon in Seattle: When a Big City Becomes a Private Laboratory -- Company Towns: As American as Apple Pie -- Zucktown -- Y Combinator and the New Cities Initiative -- No, Not Muskville, Yarrabend.

Peter Thiel's Floating Cities -- Bill Gates in the Desert -- Blockchain USA -- Will Big Tech Run Smart Cities? -- 6-Who Governs? Citizens -- Citizens and Participation -- Barcelona en Comú: Democracy by Design -- Amsterdam: DECODE and FairBnB -- Ouishare Paris -- Sharing Services in Seoul -- Smart City Governance and the Inevitability of Climate Change -- 7-The Urban Imaginary: Myths and Markets -- The Machine in the Garden -- The Tower in the Park -- The Urban Dance: Eyes on the Street -- From the Creative Class to the Smart City -- The Panoptic City? -- Selling the Smart City -- 8-Whose Smart City? -- Why Create an Urban Imaginary? -- Livability -- Surveillance and Privacy -- Ownership of Data -- Black Gold for Hackers -- Normal Cities, Normal Accidents -- Smart Distraction, Climate Change and the Efficiency Trap -- Resistance -- Municipalism -- A Manifesto for the Smart City -- Further Reading -- Index.

This book looks at what makes a city smart by describing, challenging, and offering democratic alternatives to the view that the answer begins and ends with technology. Drawing on worldwide case studies documenting the redevelopment of old and the creation of new cities, it provides an essential guide to the future of urban life in a digital world.

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