Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia by Anthony M. Townsend

Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia



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Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780393082876
Page: 400


The creative process of harnessing technology at the grass roots,” writes Anthony Townsend of New York University in his forthcoming book, “Smart Cities: Big data, civic hackers, and the quest for a new Utopia”. Jan 6, 2014 - Knight Foundation Published an excellent overview startup activity in the Civic Tech space. Nov 5, 2013 - It has been a long wait since Anthony Townsend announced he was working on a book on smart cities, but Smart cities. Oct 28, 2013 - Since sometime on 2009, according UN figures cited in Anthony Townsends new book, “Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers and the quest for a new utopia”, the majority of the world's population live in cities. Big data, civic hackers and the quest for new utopia is here now. Remaking the city, 'one site, one app, one click at a time'”? Sep 1, 2010 - His first book, SMART CITIES: Big Data, Civic Hackers and the Quest for a New Utopia will be published by W.W. The phrase Barns quotes is Townsend's but is that, too, ironic, as the subtitle to his book suggests: 'big data, civic hackers and the quest for a new utopia'? A city like you do a race car but they are leaving citizens out of the process," said Anthony Townsend, director of the Institute of the Future and author of Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia. Jan 17, 2014 - [Book] Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers and the Quest for a New Utopia · Smart-Cities-cover-197x300 · Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers and the Quest for a New Utopia by Anthony M. Apr 28, 2014 - See Townsend, Smart Cities: Big Data,Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia (New York: Norton, 2013). Oct 7, 2013 - Urban planning expert Anthony Townsend explores this and other questions in a new book, Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia. Nov 15, 2013 - Anthony Townsend, director of urban research at New York University's Rudin Center for Transportation, extols the virtues of such a place in his new book, Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia. May 18, 2014 - Is it really, as the ironic title to Sarah Barns' review of Antony Townsend's Smart Cities implies, “Plus ça change?