Smart about Cities: Visualising the Challenge for 21st Century Urbanism

ISBN 10: 9462081484 / ISBN 13: 9789462081482

Published by nai010 publishers, 2015

First edition softcover published by nai010 publishers in 2014, edited by Maarten Hajer and Ton Dassen.

This influential urbanism and architecture title critically examines the ?smart city? narrative and proposes a systems-based approach to urban planning focused on resource flows and urban metabolism.

The book includes approximately 50 full-colour infographics visualising key urban systems including energy, water, food, mobility, materials, and waste.

Details:

Softcover
Approx. 183?184 pages
English language
Publisher: nai010 publishers, Rotterdam
ISBN: 9789462081482
Year: 2014

A key reference in contemporary urban studies and sustainable planning discourse. Seller Inventory # ABE-1780661724562

Synopsis:

Current discussions on urban planning regularly invoke the concept of the smart city―a city based on innovative urban planning, which itself is based on "smart" technologies that are supposed to make cities safer, cleaner and more efficient. But is this actually improving cities? Smart about Cities argues for "smart urban planning" instead of an uncritical embrace of the smart city. Smart urban planning tackles what twentieth-century urban planning forgot―the metabolism of cities, the incoming and outgoing flows that connect urban life with the natural world. Key questions are visualized in 50 infographics: what do cities live on? How much water, food and construction material do they use? What amount of those materials do they dispose of? This book makes an appeal for "global network urban planning" in which technology is not a panacea but is instead anchored in social innovation.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Smart about Cities: Visualising the ...
Publisher: nai010 publishers
Publication Date: 2015
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good