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There are practical considerations, too, as Shoshanna Saxe of the University of Toronto has highlighted. Smart cities, she wrote in the New York Times in July, “will be exceedingly complex to manage, with all sorts of unpredictable vulnerabilities”. Tech products age fast: what happens when the sensors fail? And can cities afford expensive new teams of tech staff, as well as keeping the ground workers they’ll still need? “If smart data identifies a road that needs paving,” she writes, “it still needs people to show up with asphalt and a steamroller.”
The Case for ... Making Low-Tech 'Dumb' Cities Instead of 'Smart' Ones
theguardian.com
But some days I think I’ll scream or die if I have to keep this secret any longer.”
The Long Game
Rachel Reid
Stormwater detention and treatment can be decentralized to community-scaled parks and integrated as landscape features.
Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
Peter Calthorpe
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