Smart Cities / Smart Citizens – Jiaqi

What Is a City that It Would Be ‘Smart’?

  • “Note that, in contrast to the notion of a person being part of the city – a city remade every day through the interactions of its citizens – these smart cities are somehow conceived apart from humans.” How to understand it?

Smart Cities

  • Townsend defined smart city as places where information technology is combined with infrastructure, architecture etc. Does infrastructure is so important for smart city?  When we build a new city now, should we consider about this city will be prepared for being built a smart city in the future?

Essay: On the smart city; Or, a ‘manifesto’ for smart citizens instead

  • Dan Hill mentioned crowdfunding platforms, he used “Kickstarter” as an example to ask the question, who decides what is best locally, when using a global platform?  Do we need a standard for this division or even not in the process of building smart cities?