{"product_id":"smart-cities-in-canada-mariana-valverde-9781459415447","title":"Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs: Independent Experts Analyze Often-Controversial Schemes from Nunavut to Montreal to Toronto","description":"\"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGoogle's failed Sidewalk Labs proposal in Toronto, which drew sharp criticism over surveillance and privacy concerns, is just one of the many smart city projects which have been proposed or are underway in Canada. Iqaluit, Edmonton, Guelph, Montreal, Toronto and other cities and towns are all grappling with how to use these technologies. Some cities have quickly partnered with digital giants like Uber, Bell and IBM. Others have kept their distance. Big tech companies are hard at work recruiting customers and shaping - sometimes making - public policy on data collection and privacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmart Cities for Canada: Promise and Perils\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book on smart cities in Canada. In this collection, experts from across the country investigate what this new approach means for the problems cities face, and expose the larger issues about urban planning and democracy raised by smart city technology. This is a valuable, timely, independent‐minded book for Canadians.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariana Valverde\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1459415442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781459415447\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lorimer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Mariana Valverde","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47965253075199,"sku":"9781459415447","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_475e9db8-2686-4def-81b0-5b89062ec6fd.jpg?v=1767279278","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/smart-cities-in-canada-mariana-valverde-9781459415447","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}