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 ...

Book Reviews: 'A History Of Future Cities,' 'The Metropolitan Revolution,' 'Smart Cities,' 'Rewire' Millions of people worldwide are leaving rural areas for urban ones.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

By that standard, many “smart city” initiatives fall short, not because the tools don’t exist, but because the focus is often on visibility and symbolic infrastructure rather than impact.

Yet, the smart-cities movement could benefit from frameworks like the Smart Cities Wheel that allow a common language to develop amongst citizens, city staff, mayors, and the private sector.

New York City is redefining the 21st Century Smart City – which is why we are excited to host Smart City Expo USA for the first time in October. This two-day conference is great news for tourism and ...