Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs: Independent Experts Analyze Often-Controversial Schemes from Nunavut to Montreal to Toronto

by Mariana Valverde

"Smart cities" use surveillance, big data processing and interactive technologies to reshape urban life. Transit riders can see the bus coming on a map on their phones. Cities can measure and analyze the garbage collected from every household. Businesses can track individuals' movements and precisely target advertisements.

Google's failed Sidewalk Labs proposal in Toronto, which drew sharp criticism over surveillance and privacy concerns, is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1459415442
• ISBN13: 9781459415447
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Lorimer
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"