Smartypants cities

December 26, 2014 — November 5, 2019

buzzword

cooperation

culture

design

diy

economics

housing

incentive mechanisms

institutions

insurgency

making things

policy

spatial

straya

the rather superior sort of city

wonk

Notes towards the ubiquitous monitoring and automating of our built environment. The Internet of Big Things.

1 Ideas to discuss

How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables
Smart city versus surveillance state.

1.1 Transport

Self-Driving cars will improve our cities if they don’t ruin them.

Transportation Executive Summary — RethinkX (I have questions about how they imagine they can handle rush hour)

2 To read

Shannon Mattern, A City Is Not a Computer:

“What should a city optimize for?” Even in the age of peak Silicon Valley, that’s a hard question to take seriously. (Hecklers on Twitter had a few ideas, like “fish tacos” and “pez dispensers.”)
- Arizona State Smart Cities Course
Adam Greenfield is the guy who rails against technocapitalist utopians and will hence not get you funded.
- Also this review of his Against the smart city.
- Against the smart city itself, why not?
Tom Armitage, Some of these things are not like the others

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