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SMART CITIES: HOW CITIZENS AND BUSINESSES ARE DRIVING SMART CITIES

This is a new report from The Economist, sponsored by Phillips, about the current state of the “smart cities” debate.  It’s a useful and timely contribution to a discussion that remains important, but has become trapped in many ways in its technology-driven inception.



Attachments: Empowering-Cities The Economist

January 14, 2017 by Martin Stewart-Weeks

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Speaking truth to power or failing the first rule of good civil servants to faithfully prosecute the policy of the government of the day? twitter.com/martinsw/statu…

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“..the use of misleading or disingenuous arguments about the implications of the various options before us; and some behaviour towards our institutions, which, were it happening in another country, we would almost certainly have received instructions to register our concern” twitter.com/martinsw/statu…

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“I have been increasingly dismayed by the way in which our political leaders have tried to deliver Brexit, with reluctance to address honestly, even with our own citizens, the challenges and trade-offs which Brexit involves...” theguardian.com/politics/2019…

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“..there’s the Labour of the big cities, graduates who see mobility, diversity and change as an opportunity, and there’s the Labour of the smaller towns, where those same shifts can look like a threat” Really? We can’t fashion a viable answer? theguardian.com/commentisfree…

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I would second that. Disappointing on many levels. twitter.com/ngruen1/status…

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