The Smart-Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future • By Ben Green • MIT Press • 223 pages • ISBN: 978-0-262-03967-3 • £20 / $24.95 ...

In 'Against the smart city', networks expert and urbanist Adam Greenfield cuts into the vision of the smart city, and has some choice words for its conception as a closed-source, ground-up ...

Rise of the smart city. In 1974, the same year that Constant ceased working on New Babylon, a little-known report was published by the Los Angeles Community Analysis Bureau (CAB), titled “The ...

City sense (Image: Michael Christopher Brown/Magnum Photos) Two books explore what interactive technology can do for cities of the future – the results range from authoritarian to ideal ...

There are smart city projects around the world, said Josh O’Kane, author of a book about a failed Toronto smart-city project and a longtime business reporter with The Globe and Mail, Canada’s ...

If a smart city is defined as a civilization that uses technology to support the community, then the origins of this concept date back at least to the Neanderthals.While the concept has, of course ...

The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future Ben Green MIT Press; $24.95 (cloth ... “At the very moment,” Ben Green writes in the new book The Smart Enough City, ...

Mattern’s new book comes out August 10; it’s a collection (with revisions and updates) of some of her very smart work for Places Journal called A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences.