Nov 14, 2017
Appropriate to the age of exponential innovation, the smart-cities conversation is moving quickly. Should we it slow down? Explore additional ethical questions? Evaluate our best practices and ideas? More and more people think so. On this episode, we meet a town that's built a "simulated smart city" so they can try it before they buy it and experiment to better understand how it all fits together. And we talk with an author whose new book, among many other things, questions whether advances in civic technology are really taking the complexities of human beings and their various communities into account. Are we being inclusive in our efforts to collect better public data, engage with residents, and manage municipal resources? (After that, we get a bit lighter -- by listing out some of the best fictional mayors of all time, as submitted by you.)
Episode 18, "The Smart Cities Primer" - https://soundcloud.com/municipalequation/ep-18
GovTech, "Cary, N.C., Turns Existing Government Campus Into a Simulated Smart City" - http://www.govtech.com/fs/Cary-NC-Turns-Existing-Government-Campus-into-a-Simulated-Smart-City.html
Cary Citizen, "Cary Joins Municipal Initiative to Streamline Data, Share with Other Towns" - http://carycitizen.com/2017/10/05/cary-joins-municipal-initiative-to-streamline-data-share-with-other-towns/
Book by Cassim Shepard, "Citymakers" - http://www.monacellipress.com/book/?isbn=9781580934855
Urban Omnibus, a publication of The Architectural League of New York - https://urbanomnibus.net/
Popular Mechanics, "Bill Gates Is Buying Land in Arizona to Build a Smart City" - http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a29005/bill-gates-smart-city/
Places Journal, "A City Is Not A Computer" - https://placesjournal.org/article/a-city-is-not-a-computer/
Richard Florida, "Innovation and Urban Inequality Go Hand in Hand" - http://www.routefifty.com/smart-cities/2017/10/innovation-urban-inequality-richard-florida/142159/
Tech Crunch, "Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs to turn Toronto area into a model smart city" - https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/17/alphabets-sidewalk-labs-to-turn-toronto-area-into-a-model-smart-city/
Death and Taxes piece, "The politics of Mayor McCheese from McDonaldland" - https://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/275813/mayor-mccheese-politics/
Episode 17, "That High Lonesome Data" - https://soundcloud.com/municipalequation/ep-17