{"id":1816,"date":"2022-06-27T17:13:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T16:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2022\/06\/27\/mit-technology-review-we-need-smarter-cities-not-smart-cities\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T20:02:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T19:02:05","slug":"mit-technology-review-we-need-smarter-cities-not-smart-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2022\/06\/27\/mit-technology-review-we-need-smarter-cities-not-smart-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT technology review: “we need smarter cities, not smart cities\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A focus on building \u201csmart cities\u201d risks turning cities into technology projects. We talk about \u201cusers\u201d rather than people. Monthly and \u201cdaily active\u201d numbers instead of residents. Stakeholders and subscribers instead of citizens. This also risks a transactional\u2014and limiting\u2014approach to city improvement, focusing on immediate returns on investment or achievements that can be distilled into KPIs. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Truly smart cities recognize the ambiguity of lives and livelihoods, and they are driven by outcomes beyond the implementation of \u201csolutions.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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www.technologyreview.com\/2022\/06\/27\/1053896\/we-need-smarter-cities\/ Well put: A focus on building \u201csmart cities\u201d risks turning cities into technology projects. We talk about \u201cusers\u201d rather than people. Monthly and \u201cdaily […] Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16],"tags":[162,163],"class_list":["post-1816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-smart-cities","tag-smart-citizens"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_1045.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peQgW-ti","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1819,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions\/1819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}