Includes glossary, bibliographical references, and index (pages 154-160).
Contents:
Section 5: What is a smart grid, and how might one protect our energy future / Myths of the city / Michael Tabb, Jeffery DelViscio, Andrea Gawrylewski. Lost garden cities: pre-Columbian life in the Amazon / Michael J. Heckenberger ; Gigalopolises: urban land area may triple by 2030 / David Biello ; Decoding Mexico's city of Gods / Erik Vance ; A tale of two city-states / Tali Trigg ; The rise of homo verticalis / Roland Bouffanais, Sun Sin Lim ; Cities are surprisingly fragile / Michael Hunter, J. David Selby, and Kevin C. DeSouza -- Section 2: The science of cities. Bigger cities do more with less / Lu�is M. A. Bettencourt, Geoffrey B. West ; Grid unlocked: how street networks evolve as cities grow / Sarah Fecht ; How traffic jams decentralize cities / Sarah Fecht ; Simple mathematical law predicts movement in cities around the world / Viviane Callier -- Section 3: Urban inequality. Why building green can keep people out of jail / Majora Carter ; Share the wealth: new urban poverty atlases now provide data to slum dwellers / Larry Greenemeier ; Street markets and shantytowns forge the world's urban future / Robert Neuwirth ; Race colors new residents' views of local businesses / Erika Beras ; Photos tagged as art linked to rising property prices / Christopher Intagliata ; Who benefits from public green space? / Mallory Richards -- Section 4: Imagining the future city. Revolutionary rail: high-speed rail plan will bring fast trains to the U.S. / Stuart F. Brown ; Auto Immune: cities convert streets into pedestrian, cyclist and mass transit thoroughfares / John Matson ; Can suburbs be designed to do away with the car? / David Biello ; Can a sustainable city rise in the middle eastern desert? / David Biello ; The inconvenient truth about smart cities / Kendra L. Smith ; What's holding smart cities back? / Amit Nisenbaum -- Section 5: Designing the green city. The fishy business of waste / Madhusree Mukerjee ; How green is my city / David Biello ; How businesses use data to outsmart nature's wrath / Lou Gritzo ; "Positive cities" can improve earth as well as people's life / WIlliam McDonough ; Sustainable cities put waste to work / Michael E. Webber ; U.S. cities lose tree cover just when they need it most / Richard Conniff ; Cities need to prepare for water day zero / The editors ; Sustainability solutions for megacities / Augustine Quek, Yen Wah Tong ; What is a smart grid, and how might one protect our energy future / Michael Tabb, Jeffery DelViscio, Andrea Gawrylewski.
Summary:
"Through the use of smart technology--an integrated network of computers and telecommunication devices that collect a large amount of data to facilitate machine learning and artificial intelligence--urban areas have the opportunity to optimize public services, improve infrastructure, and operate in a more environmentally friendly way. However, those who are skeptical of smart cities argue that the large amount of data that is collected could easily be abused or fall into the wrong hands, violating the privacy of city-dwellers. This volume offers a wide range of perspectives on the potential high-tech future of cities." -- provided by the publisher.
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