The Smart City in a Digital World

Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Poet Page
Contents
List of Tables
About the Author
Acknowledgements
1-The World is Urban
	City–States
	Critical Social Science
	Climate Change
	Networks of Cities
	What Makes a City Smart?
	Smart City Patterns
	A Trilogy
	From an Urban Village to a Life in Cities
	Overview of the Book
	Smart City in a Bottle
	Endnotes
2-How to Think About Smart Cities
	Stop Using the Term
	The Smart City is About Technology
	The Smart City is About Citizens
	The Smart City is a Space-Time Machine
	The Smart City is a Computer
	The Smart City is a Platform
	Time’s Twisted Arrow
		Architecture Without Architects
		Sedentary and Smart
	IBM’s Smarter City
	Computer Simulations and Urban Dynamics in the Steel City
	Punch Cards in the City of Angels
	The 1964 New York World’s Fair
	From Progressland to Epcot
	The Wired City
	The Technological Sublime
	The Past is not Necessarily Prologue
3-City of Technology: Where the Streets Are Paved with Data
	Technology: The Next Internet
		The Internet of Things
		Cloud Computing
		Big Data Analytics
	Smart Transportation, Smart Energy, Smart Communication
	Big Savings
	Command and Control in the Smart City
	Google Toronto and it Comes Up New York
	Don’t Google This
4-Who Governs? State-Driven Smart Cities
	Three Types of Governance
	Government-Led Smart Cities
		High-tech China: What’s Your Social Credit Score?
		Modi’s India: Let 100 Smart Cities Bloom
5-Who Governs? Private Smart Cities
	But First, A Word About Disney
	Amazon in Seattle: When a Big City Becomes a Private Laboratory
	Company Towns: As American as Apple Pie
	Zucktown
	Y Combinator and the New Cities Initiative
	No, Not Muskville, Yarrabend
	Peter Thiel’s Floating Cities
	Bill Gates in the Desert
	Blockchain USA
	Will Big Tech Run Smart Cities?
6-Who Governs? Citizens
	Citizens and Participation
		Barcelona en Comú: Democracy by Design
		Amsterdam: DECODE and FairBnB
		Ouishare Paris
		Sharing Services in Seoul
	Smart City Governance and the Inevitability of Climate Change
7-The Urban Imaginary: Myths and Markets
	The Machine in the Garden
	The Tower in the Park
	The Urban Dance: Eyes on the Street
	From the Creative Class to the Smart City
	The Panoptic City?
	Selling the Smart City
8-Whose Smart City?
	Why Create an Urban Imaginary?
		Livability
		Surveillance and Privacy
		Ownership of Data
		Black Gold for Hackers
		Normal Cities, Normal Accidents
	Smart Distraction, Climate Change and the Efficiency Trap
	Resistance
	Municipalism
	A Manifesto for the Smart City
Further Reading
Index