Urbanization and Ubiquity: Power Platform – Anthony Townsend
- The Smart Grid offers a more efficient, reliable, secure, and less costly transmission and usage of electricity. How must our current power grid change to incorporate the Smart Grid? How much can a Smart City accomplish on our current power grid?
Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn?: Data, an urban resource – Halpren, LeCavalier, Calvillo, Pietsch
- The author states, “In either case, both Cisco and IFEZ are looking for new sources of revenue and hope to ‘monetize’ the attentive capacity of Songdo’s inhabitants. Their hope is to use the latent reverse of data gathered on users to produce services that can be paid for through advertising in multiple-scale devices, electronic education, physical treatment, home tele-medicine or any number of other speculative services vying for a share of this new market.” So in other words, both Cisco and IFEZ are charging Songdo inhabitants for some of the services entailed in the Smart City, to then use this data to generate advertisements, thus monetizing their attentive capacity? If so, how does this affect what makes the city “smart”?