Smart Cities, Digital Nations
by Caspar Herzberg · 13 Apr 2017
A DIGITAL NATION, THE DEMOCRATIC WAY CHAPTER 7 THE INTERNET OF EVERYTHING TRANSFORMS BROWNFIELDS AND BEYOND CHAPTER 8 EGYPT, 2015: THE SMART CITY AS A PROMISING PERSPECTIVE CHAPTER 9 THEORIES ON SMART CITIES: SUSTAINABILITY IN A CROWDED WORLD CHAPTER 10 BEYOND SONGDO AND THE FUTURE OF THE CITY CONCLUSION INDEX ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOREWORD FOR THE
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changing our perceptions of what a city does and how much energy it needs, giving rise to state-of-the-art urban centers known as “smart cities.” The smart city can be both a literal and figurative description, sometimes within the same urban space, but without exception, it is a place where citizens have
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key principle is merging city services into one platform; services that have been historically disparate and inefficient can be interconnected and improved through digitization. Some smart cities, such as Songdo, South Korea, and King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia, are early test beds for Internet-driven city services. Others, such as Barcelona
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of smart and globally connected cities have been made by a couple of daring, ambitious new cities in emerging and newly emerged countries. These new smart cities engage high-tech industrial pioneers to provide the digital infrastructure, and companies such as Cisco are finding success providing the Internet “plumbing” in this age
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needs. The technology purveyors must be endlessly resourceful and willing to create business cases that fit the specifics of each economic market. We can build smart cities today—and we must. Thousands of developed cities will need to build in digital technology in increments, fitting them to legacy assets and staying competitive
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continued growth. THE NETWORK AND THE SMART AND CONNECTED CITY While cities have always been repositories for intelligence and creativity, the modern sense of a “smart city” adds a new layer of complexity to this scenario. Cities no longer are simply places where excellent minds, companies, artists, and schools cluster—the infrastructure
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-changing technological advances, a smart and connected city can look like a boom or a bust depending on which business quarter is studied. The first smart cities were frontiers, characterized by a blend of sudden successes and unforeseen roadblocks. IoE technology, which will influence commerce and living standards far beyond the limits
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useful as proof points that help technology purveyors refine their methods. They also create business cases for future customers. It might seem that the only smart city is the greenfield, but when cities are defined as processes rather than just bricks and mortar, the importance and relevance of brownfields become clear. The
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fast and efficient as data analytics and storage methods are, Big Data may still be too much to handle. This point underscores the fact that smart cities are not, at their essence, about technology. What matters most are the quantifiable benefits to citizens, businesses, and urban administration. The choices that determine where
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function and technological underpinnings. Today that vision is driving the growth of both existing and new cities in the kingdom. Real estate development districts have smart city value propositions at their core and will continue to offer opportunities to network architects as KSA’s economic cities expand and prosper. One short-term
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a single resident arrived. Naturally, the promise of such foresight and functionality appeared grandiose to some. Others saw a dangerous precedent. Anthony Townsend, author of Smart Cities, remarked that Songdo’s architects apparently wanted “to engineer serendipity out of the [urban] equation.”4 Conservative business analysts are never swayed by grand revenue
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-internet-report.jsp. 3 Alexey Volynets, “Case Study: Korea’s Transition Towards Knowledge Economy,” World Bank, 2016, http://go.worldbank.org/2KQGBF91M0. 4 Anthony Townsend, Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers and the Quest for a New Utopia (W.W. Norton, 2013), p. 28. 5 Microsoft Named Preferred Technology Partner in “City
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, but Cisco believed that the Internet of Everything would also be the Internet of Everywhere. Its ascendancy is not necessarily predicated on the success of smart cities, especially since so few of the Western metropolises have the room for new, greenfield projects. Since China had determined that 8 percent GDP growth was
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Big Stimulus Plan in Bid to Jump-Start Growth,” Wall Street Journal, November 10, 2008, http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122623724868611327. 7 Elizabeth Woyke, “Very Smart Cities,” Forbes online, September 3, 2009, www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/03/korea-gale-meixi-technology-21-century-cities
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the worst-case scenarios evoked by skeptics of greenfield cities.12 Nonetheless, a plan for surmounting legal and practical barriers to building out India’s smart cities must strike a balance between meticulousness and inspiring public confidence. Cisco believes that their partners in DMICDC and the layers of government have been consistent
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verticals of health and education present tremendous possibility for innovations such as telepresence, provided the political will and infrastructure spending can come into alignment. Can smart cities coexist with Gandhi’s vision of 70,000 villages? It is a question that is years away from an answer. Nevertheless, we see the potential
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an important realization: Opportunity and dysfunction do not cancel each other out. Both reflect the reality of most twentieth-century cities. So how can the smart city concept and the technology master planning approach described and tested in the previous chapters be used to tackle the ultimate brownfield challenge: centuries-old megacities
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Hamas and Hezbollah,” Pew Research Center, December 2010, http://www.pewglobal.org/2010/12/02/muslims-around-the-world-divided-on-hamas-andhezbollah/. THEORIES ON SMART CITIES: SUSTAINABILITY IN A CROWDED WORLD THERE ARE MANY REASONS to be optimistic about civilization today. Optimism rarely makes news, but it is a fact that
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, citizens ideally can have oversight of the process, but planning citywide service platforms is complicated enough with a relatively limited circle of stakeholders. Townsend’s Smart Cities points out that “computing is no longer solely in the hands of big companies and governments. The raw material and the means of producing a
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populations that are growing younger (and, presently, underemployed), cities are the best opportunities. • Rather than discouraging social interaction, Internet technology seems to encourage it. The smart city, with modern communication techniques, is not filled with millions of isolation tanks outfitted with screens. Rather, evidence suggests Internet technology enhances human interaction and collaboration
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will be essential to our future cities, rather than an anachronism from the twentieth century. Airports and transportation systems will be essential components to every smart city. They will need to be supported with best-practice technology infrastructure to remain competitive, even desirable, destinations. If all these lessons are put into practice
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bring top-notch education to its children will be personal commitment. But there will still be vibrant, elite universities; most of them will be in smart cities. Students will continue to benefit from the density and community that have made colleges into coveted destinations for generations. The globalization and city-centric trends
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to escape city life for quieter, calmer, and cleaner environs originated in times when cities were hot, polluted, crime and disease-ridden, and poorly designed. Smart cities that incorporate expansive parklands and green spaces, such as Songdo, will prove to be habitable and pleasant year-round. As a result of greater human
Demystifying Smart Cities
by Anders Lisdorf
a Delaware corporation. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction The history and future of cities The Smart City landscape Actors in the Smart City Areas of application of Smart City technology Outline of the book Summary Part I: Understanding smart cities Chapter 2: Connectivity Network topologies Point-to-point topology Tree topology Bus topology Star topology Mesh
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history of AI The promise and threat of AI What is Artificial Intelligence really? Machine learning Popular AI algorithms Key issues in AI for Smart Cities Artificial and human intelligence Autonomous vehicles and ethics Artificial Intelligence meets the real world The optimization paradox The challenges to AI AI solutions in the
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Solution spotlights Project Alvelor Amsterdam 311 Summary Chapter 6: Engagement Technology adoption curve Risk and Reward Types of work Modes of working Engagement models Implementing smart city technologies Solution spotlights 100 Resilient Cities Waze Connected Citizens BetaNYC Summary Part II: Toward smarter cities Chapter 7: Architect with imagination: Could payphones show
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has not been sufficiently adopted in our cities. This book is a guide to how we can change that. The Smart City landscape The concept of a smart city is not a self-explanatory one. Smart city projects are frequently airy visions fueled by vendor marketing. Mega vendors like IBM, GE, Siemens, Citrix, Samsung, and
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struggle with the relevance of their research for the wider society. That said, there are different interests based on how universities are involved in smart cities:Providing real-world problems as subject matter for students’ projects Internships for students Research opportunities for scientific staff in the form of projects and collaborations
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by their own idiosyncratic ideas and concerns. This is where grassroots science is done. Organizations There are different types of organizations with an interest in smart cities, and they play major roles:Supranational organizations – Like the United Nations, World Bank, or the World Economic Forum, all have a great focus on
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have any power to enforce policy directly. They are also to some degree similar to researchers since they sponsor research and study different aspects of smart cities. Nongovernmental organizations – These resemble the supranational organizations, but they don’t necessarily have any support from any nations. They are typically devoted to one
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so as to make it a more sustainable, resilient, and livable city. In order to do this, we need to understand the main components of smart cities: the actors and primary areas of application. The different groups of actors – individuals, businesses, vendors, government, researchers, and organizations – all have their particular focus
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current ad hoc style of implementation. These standards should include security, privacy, and architecture standards. Having these in place and enforcing them will help make smart city solutions more sustainable and secure. © Anders Lisdorf 2020 A. LisdorfDemystifying Smart Citieshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5377-9_4 4. Data
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level of data governance and master data management, addressing data quality is also a frequent concern. Understanding and addressing these different forces is crucial for smart city solutions, since cities run on data. Footnotes 1The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing, Peter Mell, Timothy Grance © Anders Lisdorf 2020 A. LisdorfDemystifying Smart Citieshttps
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in general particular types are used for specific classes of problems. In the following are some of the most commonly used with possible applications for smart cities. Understanding the type of algorithm gives you an indication of the principles of how it works; the details of implementation and optimization are an
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space Captures interaction between variables There has to be a well-defined utility function for the problem Significant computational demand Key issues in AI for Smart Cities Using artificial intelligence in a city context raises a lot of questions that Turing’s initial thought experiment never addressed. Humans expect much more
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of how AI works in order to leverage these possibilities. Consequently, education and training become important to adapt existing resources to the new world of smart cities powered by AI. Ecology – The city as an ecosystem is also an important consideration when working with AI solutions. A city consists of many
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LisdorfDemystifying Smart Citieshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5377-9_6 6. Engagement Anders Lisdorf1 (1)Copenhagen, Denmark In order to build any smart city solution, the city has to engage with stakeholders supplying technology and expertise. This could be a minimal engagement where the city builds everything itself and
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technologies they use. Similarly, certain cities seem to drive innovation and are open to everything new. These are the ones you hear mentioned frequently at smart city conferences like London, San Jose, Seoul, Barcelona, Singapore, Rio de Janeiro, Amsterdam, and Copenhagen. Others are holding back, while most are somewhere in between.
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expect our users, customers, or politicians to have the imagination. This is something we have to supply and inject into the smart city planning process. The real frontier for smart cities is imagination. We need to be able to imagine all the things that the requirements and user stories don’t tell; we
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. They need to be supplied with operational capacities like specialists, engineers, and tacticians. If you just want to understand and build a strategy around smart cities, scientists and philosophers are great, but engineers would not necessarily thrive since the deliverable has little to do with something concrete. So it’s better
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technology: technology facilitated the building of ever larger cities that in turn facilitated the development of ever more sophisticated technologies. Seen in this light, smart cities are just a logical continuation of processes that have taken place for the past 5,000 to 10,000 years. While city dwelling had been
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in organisms, cities, economies, and companies , Geoffrey West, Penguin, 2017 The City of To-Morrow and its planning , Le Corbusier, Dover Publications, 1987 Understanding Smart City Transformation with Best Practices , IDC White Paper, November 2017 The City of Tomorrow: Sensors, Networks, Hackers, and the future of Urban Life , Carlo Ratti and
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2016 A New Digital Deal , Bas Boorsma, Rainmaking publications, 2017 Smart sustainable cities: An analysis of definitions – Focus Group Technical Report , ITU-T, October 2014 Smart Cities: Digital Solutions for a More Liveable Future , McKinsey Global Institute, June 2018 Chapter 2 Collective Dynamics of Small-World Networks , Duncan Watts, S. Strogatz, Nature
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.us/ (October 2, 2019) the official site of the Open Data portal of New York City Chapter 5 https://emerj.com/ai-sector-overviews/smart-city-artificial-intelligence-applications-trends/ (October 2, 2019) an article about AI implementations in US cities www.theverge.com/2019/4/15/18309437/new-york-
Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
by Anthony M. Townsend · 29 Sep 2013 · 464pp · 127,283 words
versatile new infrastructure for controlling the physical world. This digital upgrade to our built legacy is giving rise to a new kind of city—a “smart” city. Smart cities are places where information technology is wielded to address problems old and new. In the past, buildings and infrastructure shunted the flow of people and
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officials in the United Kingdom discussed blocking the BlackBerry Messenger mobile messaging service and other social media being used to coordinate widespread urban rioting.33 Smart cities may also amplify a more commonplace kind of violence—that inflicted by poverty—by worsening gaps between haves and have-nots. This may happen by
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countries will have to upgrade existing infrastructure to stay competitive. As new more efficient, more convenient, and more secure designs for infrastructure are crafted, building smart cities will become the first new industry of the twenty-first century. The price tag for all of those bridges, roads, power plants, water mains, and
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draw upon sensors, computers, and communications networks scattered across the cloud. Electricity, even more than the digital data it conveys, will be the lifeblood of smart cities. Rewiring the world’s power grids is a massive undertaking. Siemens constructed the first public electric utility to power a network of forty-one streetlamps
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teaching people that cities are “systems of systems,” to use a phrase Colin Harrison has advanced to explain IBM’s approach to the complexity of smart cities. As Zehnder explained, the result was “an increased awareness that, like all cities, [Portland] operates in silos,” a bureaucratic term for government departments that
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for the screen, “ubiquitous computing is a very difficult integration of human factors, computer science, engineering, and social sciences.”45 If we are looking to smart cities for urgent solutions, we may need to reset our expectations. Still, the potential for rapid advances through combinatorial innovation is a tantalizing bet. If the
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, eluding law enforcement, or distributing music. When you start paying attention to what people actually do with technology, you find innovation everywhere. The stuff of smart cities—networked, programmable, modular, and increasingly ubiquitous on the streets themselves—may prove the ultimate medium for Gibsonian appropriation. Companies have struggled to make a buck
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off smart cities so far. But seen from the street level, there are killer apps everywhere. Today, a nascent movement of civic hackers, artists, and entrepreneurs have begun
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experience and know-how, infrastructure and technology come together with the challenges of a living city. The result is a flowering of possibility about what smart cities can be, and a radically different approach to imagining them and creating the technologies that will power them. For every hardware and software breakthrough of
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be self-explanatory). Dodgeball showed how social software could be with us everywhere, and be fun without being annoying. Crowley himself is an archetype for smart-city hackers everywhere. Urban economists believe that cities thrive because they create opportunities for people to interact for commerce, learning, and entertainment. But it takes someone
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4 we saw how places like New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program are generating new designs for technologies that could power more human-centered smart cities. But ITP is just one hub of a grassroots countercurrent of civic hacking, built on open-source and consumer technologies, that is crafting an alternative
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absence of a global compact on climate change, cities from Amsterdam to New York have launched their own coordinated greenhouse-gas-emission reduction efforts. The smart-city visions of the technology industry—increasing efficiency through investments in smart infrastructure—are an important part of these cities’ efforts. But efficiency is not enough
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this movement of young people all across the world who, weaned on the mobile Web and social media, are experimenting with human-centered designs for smart cities. DIYcity was a glimpse of a new utopian vision—open, social, participatory, and extensible—dramatically different than the one technology giants are selling. It
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at the pyramid’s top.”50 This brings us to the final dilemma: crowdsourcing and the future role of government in delivering basic services. In smart cities, there will be many new crowdsourcing tools that, like OpenStreetMap, create opportunities for people to pool efforts and resources outside of government. Will governments respond
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cash-strapped developers to maintain the software and any server infrastructure it requires. Apps contests also highlight the gap between haves and have-nots in smart cities. In 2010, less than two years after Apps for Democracy launched, Washington’s new chief technology officer Bryan Sivak scrapped the contest. His glum assessment
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of pilots, prototypes, and experiments popping up across the globe demonstrates that this style of combinatorial innovation is alive and well in the realm of smart cities. Every day, tinkerers around the world are showing that smart technologies are a very different beast than mere urban utilities. They are complex assemblages crafted
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reports to software companies when our desktop crashes. Is this a model that’s portable to the world of embedded and ubiquitous computing? Counterintuitively, buggy smart cities might strengthen and increase pressure for democracy. Wade Roush, who studied the way citizens respond to large-scale technological disasters like blackouts and nuclear accidents
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array of organizations. Linking it all together, sifting through it and assembling dossiers is, for government intelligence agencies and law enforcement, a killer app for smart cities. If that wasn’t yet clear, it became abundantly so when Vice Admiral John Poindexter returned to public service in 2002 to launch Total Information
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: —bring forth your flowers and machinery: sculpture and prose flowers guess and miss machinery is the more accurate, yes it delivers the goods, Heaven knows Smart cities designed by corporations will deliver, indeed. But what? A landscape of automated cookie-cutter urbanism that doubles down on industrial capitalism and inevitably crushes our
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researchers who can speak languages of multiple disciplines—biologists who have an understanding of mathematics, mathematicians who understand biology.”36 Architects and engineers of smart cities will need to draw on both informatics and urbanism simultaneously. There are about a dozen people in the world today who can do this proficiently
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understand smart systems and their risks and benefits, and be able to explain it all to nonexpert stakeholders. To date, the few transdisciplinarians working on smart cities are mostly technologists or scientists dabbling in urbanism. But as a discipline, urban planning is probably better prepared to systematically cross-train its own students
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focus on applied urban science. These groups, along with others recently launched in London, Chicago, Zurich, and Singapore, will mine the blooming data exhaust of smart cities and deploy new sensory instruments. They will each become what the physicist who leads NYU’s effort, Steve Koonin, calls an “urban observatory”—latter-day
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’s Cities 2012/2013: Prosperity of Cities, World Urban Forum Edition (Nairobi, Kenya: UN-HABITAT, 2012), 100; population projection, lecture, Joan Clos, Director, UN-HABITAT, Smart Cities Expo 2011, Barcelona, Spain, November 29, 2011. 9D. Kissick et al., Housing for All: Essential for Economic, Social, and Civic Development, manuscript prepared for the
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. 29Ian Marlow, lecture, “X-Cities 4: Cities-as-Service,” Columbia University Studio-X, New York, April 19, 2012. 30“Global Investment in Smart City Technology Infrastructure,” Pike Research. 31“Smart City Technologies Will Grow Fivefold to Exceed $39 Billion in 2016,” ABI Research, last modified July 6, 2011, http://www.abiresearch.com/press/3715
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Rob Goodspeed. From my NYCwireless compatriots Terry Schmidt, Dustin Goodwin, Joe Plotkin, Dana Spiegel, Ben Serebin and Jacob Farkas I learned firsthand how to hack smart cities together at the hardware level. The keenest eye of all has been that of my editor Brendan Curry, whose course corrections vastly improved this manuscript
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Carol Coletta of CEOs for Cities supported my initial writing. The Kauffman Foundation supported research on the role of entrepreneurs and start-ups in building smart cities. The Frederick Lewis Allen Memorial Room at the New York Public Library and the S. C. Williams Library at Stevens Institute of Technology provided
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.com or 800-233-4830 Book design by Chris Welch Production manager: Louise Mattarelliano Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Townsend, Anthony M., 1973– Smart cities : big data, civic hackers, and the quest for a new utopia / Anthony M. Townsend. — First edition. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978
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