4 ways to get on with building Smart Cities. And the societal failure that stops us using them. | The Urban Technologist
In 2013 Adam Greenfield wrote “Against the Smart City” in criticism of the large-scale corporate- and government-led projects in cities such as Masdar, Songdo and Rio that had begun to co-opt the original idea of “Smart Communities” and citizens, given a more powerful voice in their own governance by Internet communication, into what he saw – and what some still see – as a “top-down” approach to infrastructure and services divorced from the interest of ordinary citizens.
