Smart cities from "summary" of Radical Technologies by Adam Greenfield
The notion of a city that is "smart" is one that we encounter with increasing frequency in the discourse around technology and urbanism. The idea is that through the application of networked sensors, data analytics, and automation, we might bring about a realm of more efficient, more sustainable, and more livable urban environments. In the smart city, every aspect of the built environment is instrumented, monitored, and made responsive in real time to changing conditions. The smart city is a place where the flows of people and resources are choreographed with a finesse that is hard to imagine in any older conception of urban management. The smart city is a city that is legible to itself: a city whose very metabolism can be traced in flows of data. The smart city is also a city that is responsive in real time to human needs and desires. For advocates, the smart city is a city that is perpetually optimized in response to the needs of its inhabitants. It is a city where the urban fabric itself is made to respond to the changing needs of the people who dwell within it, and to adapt to their shifting patterns of living, working, and connecting. In this way, the smart city is a city that is continuously ...
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