A Summary of Townsend’s Book, SMART CITIES.

In academia, there is this self-defeating, and sometimes pernicious, protection of…

Smart Cities in Japan; Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town

Ride-share: The Good, The Bad, & The Possibilities

Design-Thinkers Will Build the Smart City

Without engineers, we will not have smart cities. After all, it is the engineers who…

The Smart City—Technocratic or Democratic?

A debate has been brewing in the smart city movement about who exactly makes the…

Who Owns the Smart City: Corporations or Governments?

Imagining the Future City

When I look at this image of Dubai, I see the past and I sense the future. Ignore for the moment that Dubai is…

Environmentalism, with Concrete and Steel

When I first began to consider myself an “environmentalist,” I guess you could say that…

City Smarts, にほん Style

I remember a lecture from my Being and Time course in college, where my professor explained Martin Heidegger’s notion of Being-in-the-world and how one’s world can “break down” during international travel. Leading a trip to Germany for undergraduate philosophy students, he became…