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038R_But how bad this "smart city"! (research summary)
Summary of the article titled But how bad this smart city from 2015 by Umberto Cao published in the Festival Architettura magazine. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see smart city as the efficient city in absolute sense. This article investigates how this efficiency affects the architectural form and quality of the city, possibly creating a dystopia. The article is available through this link. Abstract: The Smart City is a machine, a sort of city-computer, where the hardware is made by buildings and infrastructures and the software by…
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