Against the smart city Quotes

“maintenance budgets are among the very first things to go.”
― Adam Greenfield, Against the smart city

“There’s little need to invest in the comprehensive instrumentation of the urban fabric with sensors, device controllers or informational displays when people themselves are already equipped with something that can act in all of these roles.”
― Adam Greenfield, Against the smart city

“Its first postulate is that the contemporary urban environment is so complex and so vexatious in its demands that no group of ordinary, unaided human beings can hope to understand it, let alone manage it wisely.”
― Adam Greenfield, Against the smart city