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From the Garden City to the Smart City
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Abstract It has been a century since the first Garden Cities at Welwyn and Letchworth were founded and, in the eyes of many, we have entered the age of the Smart City. This commentary briefly reflects upon the origins of Ebenezer Howard's vision in the slums of overcrowded, filthy London and the fire-traps o... mehr
It has been a century since the first Garden Cities at Welwyn and Letchworth were founded and, in the eyes of many, we have entered the age of the Smart City. This commentary briefly reflects upon the origins of Ebenezer Howard's vision in the slums of overcrowded, filthy London and the fire-traps of early 20th century Chicago before outlining some of the main contributing factors to its ultimate failure as an approach: the lack of a robust theory underpinning his ideas, a finance model which was unacceptable to the banks - leading to a compromise which robbed the more idealistic participants of any real power over their schemes - and finally, a dilution of Howard’s vision by architects who were more focused on
population density than on social reform. A parallel is then drawn between the weaknesses which afflicted the Garden City vision, and those which afflict current Smart City visions, a loose agglomeration of ahistorical techno-utopian imaginaries, whose aims almost invariably include optimising various measures of efficiency using large-scale deployments of
networked sensors and cameras, linked to monolithic control rooms from which our shared urban existence is overseen. The evolution (or perhaps more accurately: alteration) of these concepts in response to criticism is then detailed, before some of the less well-known ideas which are now emerging are briefly discussed.... weniger
Klassifikation
Raumplanung und Regionalforschung
Freie Schlagwörter
garden city; smart city; urban technologies; utopias
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2017
Seitenangabe
S. 1-4
Zeitschriftentitel
Urban Planning, 2 (2017) 3
Heftthema
Smart Solutions for Sustainable Cities
ISSN
2183-7635
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet