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The Smart City

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Resources and references on the smart city, prepared in part for CBIC XVII: The Smart City.

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This relentless urban growth has led to a renewed interest in cities in academia and in government. In February 2009, President Obama established the first White House Office of Urban Affairs, which has been told to develop a "policy agenda for urban America." Meanwhile, new perspectives have come to the field of urban studies.

A Physicist Turns the City Into an...

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Updated 10 months ago

A new report from Obama's science and tech advisors outlines the case for an urban-focused technology policy. I've long complained that U.S. cities are not getting the attention they deserve from the federal government, even though they are the nation's fundamental engines of innovation and economic progress.

Why Cities Belong at the Center of...

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Updated 10 months ago

A new report to President Obama places an urgent emphasis on smart cities. It even calls on the federal government to provide more help to cities. That's the good news. But learn how following it blindly could cause your city to fall well short of its potential.

Why this terrible report on smart...

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Updated 10 months ago

Growing urbanization presents the United States with an opportunity to showcase its innovation strength, grow its exports, and help to improve citizens' lives - all at once. Seizing this triple opportunity will involve a concerted effort to develop and apply new technologies to enhance the way cities work for the people who live there.

PCAST Releases Technology and the...

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Updated 10 months ago

The idea of "smart cities" is becoming more important to the way future cities are planned, developed and governed. Focused broadly on the application of new digital technologies to urban problems in order to increase efficiency, the smart cities concept has been at the center of both rapid greenfield urbanization in peripheral areas of the Global South, as well as more piecemeal efforts in the existing cities of the Global North.

Technocratic Values and Uneven...

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Billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates may be planning to build a cutting-edge "smart city" right in Arizona. A real estate investment firm owned by Gates recently bought a giant plot of land in the far west Valley for $80 million. The firm bought 25,000 acres of land in Tonopah, about 50 miles west of Phoenix.

Billionaire Bill Gates planning to...

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