Smart Cities by Germaine Halegoua (English) Paperback Book

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Smart Cities by Germaine Halegoua 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 benefits of this approach to urban life.After reviewing current terminology and justifications employed by technology designers, journalists, and researchers, the book describes three models for smart city development-smart-from-the-start cities, retrofitted cities, and social cities-and offers examples of each. It covers technologies and methods, including sensors, public wi-fi, big data, and smartphone apps, and discusses how developers conceive of interactions among the built environment, technological and urban infrastructures, citizens, and citizen engagement. Throughout, the author-who has studied smart cities around the world-argues that smart city developers should work more closely with local communities, recognizing their preexisting relationship to urban place and realizing the limits of technological fixes. Smartness is a means to an end- improving the quality of urban life. Author Biography Germaine R. Halegoua is Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of Kansas. Details ISBN0262538059 Author Germaine Halegoua Publisher MIT Press Ltd Series MIT Press Essential Knowledge series Year 2020 ISBN-10 0262538059 ISBN-13 9780262538053 Format Paperback Imprint MIT Press Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass. Country of Publication United States DEWEY 307.760285 Affiliation San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Position Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Practice Pages 248 Publication Date 2020-02-18 Language English UK Release Date 2020-02-18 AU Release Date 2020-02-18 NZ Release Date 2020-02-18 US Release Date 2020-02-18 Edited by Dominic Willsdon Birth 1939 Death 1939 Qualifications Ph.D. Alternative 9780262356824 Audience General Illustrations 4 b&w illus.; 8 Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENT Peace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:126895476;

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