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 & symbiosis.
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.
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