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Smart about Cities. visualizing the challenge for 21st century urbanism (ebook) | Ton Dassen, Maarten Hajer | 9789462081819

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Smart about Cities (ebook)

visualizing the challenge for 21st century urbanism

Author:Ton Dassen, Maarten Hajer

Publisher:nai010, PBL

ISBN: 978-94-6208-181-9

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  • English

The book 'Smart about Cities' is an appeal for ‘smart urban planning’ and presents the Smart City in fifty unique infographics.

The current discourse on urban planning is imbued with the concept of the smart city. The smart city is based on innovative urban planning, which itself is based on smart technologies that not only make cities safer and cleaner, but also (and especially) more efficient. But is this actually making cities any better? In the book 'Smart about Cities. visualizing the challenge for 21st century urbanism', Maarten Hajer and Ton Dassen (PBL) argue for ‘smart urban planning’, thereby providing a counterweight to the uncritical embrace of the smart city.

Smart urban planning aims at finding solutions to what twentieth-century urban planning forgot: the metabolism of cities, i.e. the wide variety of incoming and outgoing streams that connect urban life with nature.

The book 'Smart about Cities. visualizing the challenges for 21st century urbanism' was presented at the international architecture biennale Rotterdam (IABR) 2014 - Urban by Nature.

The book 'Smart about Cities' is an appeal for ‘smart urban planning’ and presents the Smart City in fifty unique infographics.

The current discourse on urban planning is imbued with the concept of the smart city. The smart city is based on innovative urban planning, which itself is based on smart technologies that not only make cities safer and cleaner, but also (and especially) more efficient. But is this actually making cities any better? In the book 'Smart about Cities. visualizing the challenge for 21st century urbanism', Maarten Hajer and Ton Dassen (PBL) argue for ‘smart urban planning’, thereby providing a counterweight to the uncritical embrace of the smart city.

Smart urban planning aims at finding solutions to what twentieth-century urban planning forgot: the metabolism of cities, i.e. the wide variety of incoming and outgoing streams that connect urban life with nature. This metabolism is visualized in 50 infographics, giving us answers to questions such as: what do cities live off of? How much water, food, construction materials, and other materials do they use? What amount of those materials do they dispose of? How effective is the metabolism? This book makes an appeal for ‘global-network urban planning’, in which technology is not a panacea, but instead is anchored in social innovations.

The book 'Smart about Cities. visualizing the challenges for 21st century urbanism' was presented at the international architecture biennale Rotterdam (IABR) 2014 - Urban by Nature.

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