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Smart Cities on Fire

Smart Cities on Fire

Drew Austin
Sep 17, 2020
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In early 2018, Bruce Sterling proclaimed that the smart city was dead, or rather, that it never quite existed in the first place. The idea of the “smart city,” despite peaking in relevance several years ago, has never quite gone away, but we’ve collectively become more cynical about its severe limitations and the vagueness of the concept, which has freq…

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