Smart about Cities
By :"Maarten Hajer"
Published on 2015-04-28 by Nai Uitgevers Pub
Category :"Architecture"
The discourse on 'Smart Cities' is everywhere. It promises an era of innovative urban planning, driven by smart urban technologies that will make cities safer, cleaner and, above all, more efficient. Efficiency seems uncontroversial but does it make for great cities? In this book, Maarten Hajer, Director-general of PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and Ton Dassen, urban sustainability researcher at PBL, plea for a 'smart urbanism' instead of uncritically adopting 'smart cities'. Such smart urbanism needs to find solutions for what modern 20th century urbanism has forgotten to take into account: the 'metabolism' of cities - the variety of flows that connect city life to nature. What are we taking in, what are we discharging, and how efficiently are we doing that.
Lenght : 184
Language : en
This Book was ranked 13 by Google Books for keyword smart cities
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