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Why Smart Cities Must be Sharing Cities

October 1, 2014 /

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These days every city claims to be a "smart" city, or is becoming one, with heavy investments in modern information and computing technology to attract businesses and make the city competitive.

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But when mayors and developers focus on technology rather than people, smart quickly becomes stupid, threatening to exacerbate inequality and undermine the social cooperation essential to successful cities. After researching leading cities around the world, we’ve concluded that truly smart cities will be those that deploy modern technology in building a new urban commons to support communal sharing.

by Julian Agyeman and Duncan McLaren

Full Story: http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/09/30/is-the-sharing-economy-making-cities-less-cooperative/ideas/nexus/

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