A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences by Shannon Mattern

A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences

Shannon Mattern

187 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

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A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computersComputational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urba...

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