The smart city, as it's usually conceived, is a city that approaches the software ideal. A smart city needs the infrastructure to collect relevant data, process that data, and generate output that human decision-makers or other computers can use to optimize urban life according to whatever criteria the stakeholders define. The more closely a city can approach that unattainable ideal, which only exists in purely digital space, the more rational, efficient, and (in theory) hospitable that city will become.
#4: In Praise of Dumb Cities
#4: In Praise of Dumb Cities
#4: In Praise of Dumb Cities
The smart city, as it's usually conceived, is a city that approaches the software ideal. A smart city needs the infrastructure to collect relevant data, process that data, and generate output that human decision-makers or other computers can use to optimize urban life according to whatever criteria the stakeholders define. The more closely a city can approach that unattainable ideal, which only exists in purely digital space, the more rational, efficient, and (in theory) hospitable that city will become.