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The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

Green, Ben
Franklin-Hodge, Jascha

Paperback

Series: Strong Ideas

Technology & EngineeringGeneral SociologyUnited States Politics

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ISBN10: 0262538962
ISBN13: 9780262538961
Publisher: Mit Pr
Published: Feb 18 2020
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Why technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be smart enough, using technology to promote democracy and equity.

Smart cities, where technology is used to solve every problem, are hailed as futuristic urban utopias. We are promised that apps, algorithms, and artificial intelligence will relieve congestion, restore democracy, prevent crime, and improve public services. In The Smart Enough City, Ben Green warns against seeing the city only through the lens of technology; taking an exclusively technical view of urban life will lead to cities that appear smart but under the surface are rife with injustice and inequality. He proposes instead that cities strive to be smart enough to embrace technology as a powerful tool when used in conjunction with other forms of social change--but not to value technology as an end in itself.

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