Dream States
Dream States
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WINNER OF THE 2022 WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DONNER BOOK PRIZE
WINNER OF THE PATTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION GLOBAL CITIES BOOK AWARD
Is the 'smart city' the utopia we've been waiting for?
The promise of the so-called smart city has been at the forefront of urban planning and development since the early 2010s, and the tech industry that supplies smart city software and hardware is now worth hundreds of billions a year.
But the ideas and approaches underpinning smart city tech raise tough and important questions about the future of urban communities, surveillance, automation, and public participation. The smart city era, moreover, belongs firmly in a longer historical narrative about cities - one defined by utopian ideologies, architectural visions, and technological fantasies.
Smart streetlights, water and air quality tracking, autonomous vehicles: with examples from all over the world, including New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Portland, and Chicago,Dream Statesunpacks the world of smart city tech, but also situates this important shift in city-building into a broader story about why we still dream about perfect places.
"John Lorinc's incisive analysis in Dream States reminds us that the search for urban utopia is not new. Throughout the book, Lorinc underscores the fact that a gamut of urban innovations from smart city megaprojects to e-government to pandemic preparedness tools only provide promise when scrutinized together with the political, economic, social, and physical complexities of urban life." Shauna Brail, University of Toronto
"Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban UtopiasEnid Slack, University of Toronto School of Cities
""Utopia may be the oldest grift in the city-building business, but Dream States shows that technology is a timeless tool for turning the most ordinary of urban dreams clean air and water, safe streets, and decent homes into reality. As digital dilettantes try to sell us on a software overhaul, John Lorinc provides us an indispensable and flawless guide to the must-haves and never-agains of the smart city." Anthony Townsend, Urbanist in Residence, Cornell Tech, author of Smart Cities
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