《Dawn_of_the_Smart City_web》.pdf

DAWN OF THE SMART CITY? PERSPECTIVES FROM NEW YORK, AHMEDABAD, SÃO PAULO, and BEIJING EDITED BY Schuyler Null, Michael Darden, Allison Garland, and Susan Chan Shifflett 1 WHAT ARE SMART CITIES? Schuyler Null 2 BRINGING JANE JACOBS INTO THE 21ST CENTURY Alexandros Washburn 8 INDIA’S GREAT MIGRATION Dhamodaran Ramakrishnan 12 SÃO PAULO: THE SEARCH FOR A SPATIALLY SMARTER CITY Philip Yang, Emilia Patiño Anaya 18 URBAN AGRICULTURE MAKES CHINA’S CITIES MORE LIVABLE Jianming Cai Photo Credits: Cover and Back, Doha night skyline, courtesy of Flickr user Christian Senger; Inside Cover, China’s National Convention Center, Beijing, cour- tesy of Flickr user Trey Ratcliff; Page 3, Lower Manhattan after Hurricane Sandy, courtesy of Flickr user Jonathan Percy; Page 5, Trains being loaded after Hurricane Sandy, courtesy of Patrick Cashin/Metropolitan Transportation Authority; Page 6, Sailors repair the Hoboken Transit Terminal, courtesy of James Stenberg/U.S. Navy; Page 9, Women walk in Ahmedabad, courtesy of Flickr user Emmanuel Dyan; Page 10, The Shivranjani bus station, Ahmedabad, courtesy of Flickr user Velaparatodo; Page 13, São Paulo at night, courtesy of Flickr user Ricardo Motti. Figures 1 and 2 courtesy of URBEM; Pages 14–15, Construction in São Paulo’s Paraisópolis favela, courtesy of Flickr user Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento; Page 17, Escalators in São Paulo, courtesy of Flickr user Leo Eloy; Page 19, Street vendors in Kaifeng, China, courtesy of Flickr user Michaël Garrigues; Inside Back Cover, A plaza in Beijing, courtesy of Flickr user Trey Ratcliff. WHAT ARE SMART CITIES? Schuyler Null Writer/Editor, Wilson Center RAPID GROWTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE are Alongside these largely top-down initiatives, smart creating new challenges for urban areas around the technologies could also help every-da