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 ...

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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, ...