Smart Cities for Whom?

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By Next American City | 20 July 2011 | 707

Our cities will have to adapt to myriad challenges, from global climate change to the banal-by-comparison — but equally important — challenge of complaining about city services. But cities have been good at this. Industrial-age London solved its sanitation problem; late-19th-century New York solved its housing problem. The promise of location-aware information technology — of “urban informatics” — is of even smarter cities, of crowdsourced solutions and data-driven governance. Read More