Description: This book looks at what makes a city smart by describing, challenging, and offering democratic alternatives to the view that the answer begins and ends with technology. Drawing on worldwide case studies documenting the redevelopment of old and the creation of new cities, it provides an essential guide to the future of urban life in a digital world.
Review Quotes: "This is a book that challenges the current excitement about 'smart cities', a buzzword that Vincent Mosco critically dissects as another of the 'sublime visions', like 'garden cities' and 'postmodern cities', that continually resurface as urban mythologies... an important source for urban studies and communications scholars as well as urban planners, technology students, sociologists and political economists and others concerned about the future of cities as spaces for people and not just for private profit."--Gerald Sussman, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research