Anthony M. Townsend is the author of Ghost Road and Smart Cities, and the president and founder of Star City Group, a strategic foresight and urban planning studio. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.
"[A] timely and necessary guide to this age of the Franken-city." -- Daniel Brook - New York Times Book Review "Anthony Townsend sifts through the hope and the hype of the latest system upgrade for our growing, and increasingly more elusively managed, metropolises - digital technology - emerging with an ambitiously wide-ranging, admirably clear-eyed, and ultimately humanistic guidebook to the connected city." -- Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) "Powerful, readable prose." -- Franklyn Carter - NPR "Of interest to urban planners and designers, tech leaders, and entrepreneurs, Townsend's globe-hopping study examines the trend toward smart cities while addressing pros and cons, as top-down corporate models develop alongside communitarian and entrepreneurial initiatives...The autobiographical passages and close readings of other scrappy innovators are the most enjoyable part of this impressive survey, which tries to secure democratic impulses amid a new gold rush." -- Publishers Weekly "Compelling." -- Melanie Moses - Nature "[Townsend] has written a generous book in clean prose, one that will engage both advanced geeks and cyber-dolts." -- Catherine Tumber - The Nation
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