An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future.
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As the world becomes more urbanized, the cities themselves are becoming smarter. In this visionary book, that sometimes reads like a great science-fiction novel (with the emphasis on the "science" part), the author, a futurologist and entrepreneur, describes how our cities were shaped from the nineteenth century to the present, and the forces that had affected our ideas of planning and design, from telegraph to cloud computing and beyond. As the complexity of urban settlements grows, new solutions to dealing with it and "taming" the city are developed. The growth of technology in unexpected directions combined with particular motivations and ideologies of entrepreneurs, city officials and civic hackers is analyzed, and a new code of civics is proposed to guide our future development in the directions we would like to go. Progressive and pragmatic, the volume is a blueprint for our unavoidably urban future. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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