The truth about smart cities: ‘In the end, they will destroy democracy’

 

The smart city is, to many urban thinkers, just a buzzphrase that has outlived its usefulness: ‘the wrong idea pitched in the wrong way to the wrong people’. So why did that happen – and what’s coming in its place, asks Steven Poole

Source: www.theguardian.com

“Why do smart cities offer only improvement?” asks the architect Rem Koolhaas. “Where is the possibility of transgression?””

Sure, but transgression is not programmable!

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