
The Smart Enough City


Sustainable, cooperative, wired and efficient are some adjectives that come to mind. More broadly, smart cities encourage economic development and promote a high quality of life,
Scientific American Editors • Designing the Urban Future: Smart Cities
The same imbalance can be found in many other fields: decades of work on smart cities largely ignored an understanding of the social dynamics of cities. This meant that although the parts of the smart city that dealt with physical things worked, those that involved hu-mans generally didn’t or were rejected.