http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: sustainability - Recent Topics en Sun, 31 May 2026 12:06:23 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20062#post-321659 Wed, 29 Jan 2020 15:02:45 +0000 unhurt 321659@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Some really interesting stuff to think on in this article making the case against "smart cities" and in favour of rediscovering old approaches, urban rewilding, sponge cities &amp; symbiosis.</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2020/jan/15/the-case-for-making-low-tech-dumb-cities-instead-of-smart-ones" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2020/jan/15/the-case-for-making-low-tech-dumb-cities-instead-of-smart-ones</a> </p> <p><blockquote>Saxe pithily calls for redirecting some of our energy toward building “excellent dumb cities.” She’s not anti-technology, it’s just that she thinks smart cities may be unnecessary. “For many of our challenges, we don’t need new technologies or new ideas; we need the will, foresight and courage to use the best of the old ideas,” she says.</blockquote> </p>