SMART ABOUT CITIES

In this book, Maarten Hajer and Ton Dassen (PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency) argue for 'smart urban planning', there by providing a counterweight to the uncritical embrace of the smart city. Smart urban planning aims at finding solutions to what twe ntieth-century urban planning forgot: the metabolism of cities, i.e. the wide variety of incoming and outgoing flows that connect ur ban life with nature. This metabolism is visualized in 50 infographics, giving us answers to questions such as: what do cities live off of? H...[Read more]